29 High Street is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1974. House, commercial premises. 9 related planning applications.
29 High Street
- WRENN ID
- scarred-buttress-magpie
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1974
- Type
- House, commercial premises
- Address
- 29 High Street, Dorset, BH15 1AB
- OS grid reference
- SZ 009 904
- Coordinates
- 50.71335, -1.98725
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
29 High Street is a pair of 17th-century houses that were modified in the late 18th century and given a new façade in the late 19th century. Originally, this building served as a public house called the Bell and Crown and has since been used for commercial purposes.
The structure is made of painted brick with moulded stone eaves, while the rear features limestone rubble that is partly rendered. The roof is tiled and includes moulded axial chimney stacks located on the rear wing and to the left.
The building has an L-shaped plan with a single-storey infill at the rear. It stands two storeys high plus attics, displaying a four-window range to the High Street. The shallow canted central angle of the front indicates the division between the two former houses. The façade of the old public house includes two round-arched doorways with fanlights and four-panel doors. The right-hand doorway is flanked by three-centre-arched windows that have moulded stops and paired round-arched plate-glass windows, all featuring vermiculated keystones above. A moulded cornice supported by four enriched brackets runs above the three right-hand openings, similar to the cornice over a former doorway on the right-hand return. The two left-hand windows on the ground floor have flat heads with vermiculated keystones, thin imposts, and tripartite sashes. On the first floor, there are four horned two-over-two pane sashes. At the rear, there is a rubble stone wing with a steep roof and angled gable, along with a later curved brick single-storey addition.
Inside, the building was altered in the late 20th century. The attic features an early 19th-century open-well staircase with a ramped rail, a column newel, and stick balusters.
Local climate
29 High Street receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 95% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 3 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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