Town Beam is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1974. Structure. 11 related planning applications.
Town Beam
- WRENN ID
- burning-lime-winter
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1974
- Type
- Structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The remains of wool scales. Erected probably before 1822 on the site of an earlier structure; much restored in 1947 and in 2019.
DESCRIPTION: the Town Beam is situated in front of the early-C19 Custom House and to south of the Town Cellars, a former wool house (now part of Poole Museum) of the late C13/early C14. It is a cruciform structure of timber, comprising a square-section shaft topped by a domed cap of brass or copper sheeting and horizontal arms with diagonal braces on either side. The arms support a wrought-iron tie or beam with eye-bolt terminals which would have previously carried the steelyard balance in which the object/s to be weighed was suspended. The woodwork has been renewed but the original fittings are considered to remain.
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