DORSET. lock-ups at Cerne Abbas, Corfe Castle, Gillingham, Okeford Fitzpatrick, Poole, Swanage & Lyme Regis.

 

There was a lock-up at Cerne Abbas but all that remains of it is a flint wall with the outline of a filled in doorway. It is situated in Long Street opposite the Royal Oak Inn.
There is a sketch of the wall in Some West Country Lock-Ups by Leslie Brook, page 35.



ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo


 

The lock-up at Corfe Castle, also known as The Blind House, is situated on the ground floor (right) of the Old Town Hall, West Street, BH20 5HE and dates to the 17th century.

The upper floor of the building was added in 1774 to house the Council Chamber.

CORFE CASTLE

OS Grid Reference: SY9603282053
OS Grid Coordinates: 396032, 82053
Latitude/Longitude: 50.6382, -2.0575

Photo by Louise Haywood.

 

I am  grateful to Louise Haywood for sending me this photograph and information about the lock-up.

 

 

The building was Grade 11* listed 20.11.1958 (No.109291). The lock-up is built from rubble stone. Now fully renovated and said to be the smallest town hall in England, it is now the village museum.
 

 

 

 

 

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

 

 

 

The lock-up at Gillingham is situated at 5 South Street, SP8 4AT and is now

PRIVATE PROPERTY.

It dates to c1750.

 

 

 GILLINGHAM

OS Grid Reference: ST8066326510
OS Grid Coordinates: 380663, 126510
Latitude/Longitude: 51.0376, -2.2772
 

Photos by Colin Sinnott

 

 

With many thanks once again to Colin for his supply of photographs.

 

 

It was Grade 11 listed 3.1.1985 (No.102990) and described as :

 

Lock-up, early C19. Coursed, squared rubble with gable-ended, tiled

roof. Single storey. No windows. Central bay projects slightly.
Unmoulded, central doorway with 4-centred head and simple pitched label.
Studded plank door.
(RCHM, Dorset, vol IV, p 30, no 9).
Listing NGR: ST8066326510

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.

 

 

PLEASE RESPECT PRIVATE PROPERTY.

 

 

 

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo




There was a lock-up at Okeford Fitzpatrick. Attached to a barn the whole site was subsequently converted into a charming thatched cottage.. The oak door with grille and pointed arch doorway were incorporated into the facade of the new building.

 There is a sketch of the building in Lelie Brooke's book page 43.

PLEASE RESPECT PRIVATE PROPERTY



oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo



 

 

 

The lock-up, later a fire engine house, at POOLE is situated in Paradise Street, BH15 1ZA

against the rear of the Town Cellar. It dates to 1820 (datestone) and is now a PRIVATE STORE.

 

 

POOLE

OS Grid Reference: SZ0086490320
OS Grid Coordinates: 400864, 90320
Latitude/Longitude: 50.7125, -1.9891

Photo's by Roy Pledger


It was Grade 11 listed 14.6.1954 (No.412573) and described as :

 







 Gaol, now store. 1820. Limestone ashlar with a slate roof.
Single-room plan. Single storey; 2-window range. 2 small
barred windows and studded door between have chamfered
surrounds; later double door inserted in the W end when used
as fire station. INTERIOR not inspected.
An historically significant survival, built as a lean-to
against The Town Cellar (qv).
(RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 204).

Listing NGR: SZ0086490320

Source: English Heritage

Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence: PSI Click-use licence number C2008002006.

 

Possibly the original door.

 

 

PLEASE RESPECT PRIVATE PROPERTY.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo



This lock-up at Swanage dates to 1803 (datestone). It was moved from a corner of the churchyard in about 1860 to its present location in  a small square behind the town  hall.
It does not appear to be a listed building.

SWANAGE

Photo by John Allen.

I am grateful to John Allen for giving me permission to copy this photograph.

 

 

 

The plaque over the door reads :

 

' Erected

for the Prevention

of

Vice & Immorality

by the Friends of Religion & Good Order.

AD 1803 '.

 

 

 

 

ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

There was a lock-up at Lyme Regis until about 1887. The Guildhall in Bridge Street, DT7 3AQ was built on the site in that year and only the old  lock-up door remains at the side of the building. A sign over the door reads :

' THE DOOR
OF THE OLD LOCK-UP 
WHICH STOOD HERE '.

Gaol Attached to North End of the Town Cellar - Poole - Dorset - England

Your name:
Your email address:
Required, will not be published.
Please fill in only one of the sections A or B below:

A: Report an Error

Report error tick this box to flag this building as having the wrong latitude/longitude
Comments:
If it's not obvious, please explain why you think this location is wrong!

B: Fix an Error

Correct Coordinates
Latitude:    Longitude:
If you know the correct latitude and longitude for this building, then please enter them here in decimal format. Leave these blank if you are only correcting the postcode.
Correct Street Address
Address:
If you know the correct street address for this building, please enter it here. Please use comma-separated single line format, for example: 123 Any Street, Someplace, Countyshire. Don't include the postcode as that goes in the box below.
Correct Postcode
Postcode:
If you know the correct postcode for this building, please enter it here.
Comments:
Any further information you may have related to the correct location of this building. If you have supplied a corrected latitude and longitude, then please say how you obtained them (eg, GPS, checked on map, etc).

LYME REGIS

 

Photo by Colin Sinnott

 

 

 

 

 

 

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO