Poole House

POOLE

SZ0090SE THAMES STREET 958-1/17/177 (South West side) 14/06/54 No.13 Poole House

GV II

House. c1730, back rebuilt and altered mid C19, front wall rebuilt and restored 1965-6. Header bond brickwork to front and English bond to the sides, with stucco and stone dressings, brick gable stacks and a tiled roof. Early Georgian style. Double-depth plan. 2 storeys and attic; 3-bay range. Double-fronted and articulated by banded pilaster strips; ground-floor cill band, modillion cornice and parapet with a central balustrade section and 4 fine urns. Doorway has fluted Ionic pilasters to a pulvinated frieze and modillion pediment, panelled reveals and a radiating fanlight over a 6-panel door. Eared and keyed stone architraves with first-floor cill blocks, round-arched central window with Gibbsian blocked architrave, to 6/6-pane sashes. 3 mid C20 hipped dormers. Left-hand return has single bay of matching windows. The roof raised and extended to the rear mid C19, the stacks marking the original ridge. INTERIOR: building altered in 1960s and converted to 2 units in 1989. None of the features recorded in RCHME have survived. HISTORICAL NOTE: probably built by the Weston family. One of the earliest houses built with the C18 prosperity from the Newfoundland trade. The emphasis on the middle bay is a characteristic of provincial Baroque, and the facade has strong similarities with No.2 St James's Close (qv). (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 323; RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 234).

Listing NGR: SZ0080390391