King Charles Public House (Part)

POOLE

SZ0090SE THAMES STREET 958-1/17/170 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.3 King Charles Public House (part) (Formerly Listed as: THAMES STREET (West side) No.3 King Charles Inn)

GV II

Formerly known as: New Inn THAMES STREET. House, now public house. Late C16, converted to an inn c1770, altered early C19, restored mid C20. Timber-framed, with close studding to first floor and gables; partly rendered and slate-hung, with a tarred plinth; brick lateral stacks and a tiled roof. 2-room plan with central entry and brick rear wing; extended. 2 storeys; 2-window range. A near symmetrical front has paired gables with barge-boards, shallow-jettied first-floor, and a large left-hand exterior stack. Central early C19 doorway has pilasters to a wide pediment and 6-panel door with the top panels glazed, between wide, shallow bays with 4- and 5-light mullion and transom windows. Close-studded first floor has rounded joist ends and jowled corner posts, and C16 4- and 5-light gabled oriels with cyma-curved bases. Plate-glass casements. A central slate-hung gable is set back, with a right-hand lateral stack. INTERIOR has a right-hand room with moulded late C16 lateral beam continuous with moulded cornice and wall plate, and left-hand room with re-set C17 panelling as a dado and fire surround, C19 match boarding above to C18 box cornice, and horizontal sliding sash to the rear. A C20 stair leads in to the first floor of the Kinges Halle (qv). Recorded by the RCHME to contain moulded spandrels to foot of roof trusses and original false hammer-beam trusses in 2 first-floor rooms, and a detached kitchen for which no evidence was found. Fireplace possibly part of early kitchen, incorporated into the house in extensive C19 remodelling. One of only a small number of timber-framed houses surviving in the town, and the only one with a framed front to the street. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 234; Hillier J: A Portfolio of Old Poole: Poole: 1983-: 24).

Listing NGR: SZ0083890316