4, Market Close is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 June 1954. House. 1 related planning application.
4, Market Close
- WRENN ID
- pale-belfry-coral
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Poole MP: Neil Duncan-Jordan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 June 1954
- Type
- House
- Address
- 4, Market Close, BH15 1NQ
- OS grid reference
- SZ 010 906
- Coordinates
- 50.71547, -1.98705
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 4 Market Close is a former house now serving as a masonic lodge. The building features an early 18th-century rear section and a late 18th-century front, with a late 19th-century entrance. The front is constructed of header bond brickwork with stucco dressings and has a steep tiled roof. It has a double-depth plan and stands two storeys tall with a four-window range.
The right-hand side has a late 19th-century single-storey entrance bay that is set back and includes a cornice and balustrade. Steps lead up to a keyed doorway with a panelled door and flanking sidelights. The main front displays an English bond plinth, a stucco cornice, and a parapet. The right-hand windows are slightly apart and feature flat gauged brick arches over 6/6-pane sashes. The early 18th-century rear section has an eaves cornice and a steeply pitched roof.
Although the interior was not inspected, it is noted to include ornately carved mahogany panelling in the dining room, which is reputed to have been donated by Lord Wimborne from an estate in Spain. The front ground floor room features a decorated terracotta chimney piece adorned with Masonic symbols, and the temple on the first floor is also panelled, containing ornate regalia and symbols. There was a former entrance in the right-hand ground-floor window.
Local climate
4, Market Close 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
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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