Cellar beneeth manor house - Poole

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sam1990

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Here are some photos of a cellar beneeth a manor house which is used by the county council.

Low ground level means that it is flooded most of the time, ashame really, hope it doesn't damage the building above!

There is what appears to be access to a filled-in smugglers tunnel in the next room, and the construction of the cellar appears to pre-date the house above.

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Heres hoping i've not postem them already! Spotted another 'dorset' thread and reminded me to post these.
 
Love these....Work for the Borough of Poole so shall have to seek these out. Nice one.
 
Love these....Work for the Borough of Poole so shall have to seek these out. Nice one.

I could tell you exactly where it is, and who's using it over PM if you want? Unless you want to have the fun of finding out for yourself, in which case i dont want to ruin the challenge ;)

Whoa, pix are far far too big!
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Sorry, am using firefox so images are automatically made smaller for me. Will run compression
 
Cellars with ceilings of proper arched construction are generally found in properties with flagged or tiled floors in their ground floor rooms. Whilst very common in the 1700's and earlier, this type of cellar construction continued well into the Victorian period - especially in properties that had a large ground floor area and equally large cellars. Any cellars situated under stone floored domestic rooms in these properties will most likely have arched ceilings.
 
I could tell you exactly where it is, and who's using it over PM if you want? Unless you want to have the fun of finding out for yourself, in which case i dont want to ruin the challenge ;)

I'm thinking the old town, but yeah a PM wouldn't go amiss! ;)
 
Cellars with ceilings of proper arched construction are generally found in properties with flagged or tiled floors in their ground floor rooms. Whilst very common in the 1700's and earlier, this type of cellar construction continued well into the Victorian period - especially in properties that had a large ground floor area and equally large cellars. Any cellars situated under stone floored domestic rooms in these properties will most likely have arched ceilings.

The property has a strange mix of wooden and tiled floors, which are hidden beneeth standard-issue council carpets. I believe the mix of floors to be to do with the various extentions the house had throughout the 1800s.

I've long suspected that the abaondoned cellar holds the biggest clues as to what the first design of the house was like, which was built in 1796. Based on what you've said, i'm guessing that you too have a similar idea about the age of the cellar?
 

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