(In the Appreciation as "Post Office, 11 and 13 Market Street")
(Grade III listed at one time but now Grade II listed)
(Grade III listed at one time but now Grade II listed)
The main building in these pictures ~ 18th century, refashioned early 19th century according to its listing ~ may have been the Post Office at the time of the Appreciation, but the office has moved round the village quite a lot. In the 19th century, it was in the building on the corner of Rodden Row and Market Street, but had moved to this site by 1973, and then in the late 1990s it moved back to the Flower Bowl in Market Street, some time after the business premises here were changed into two separate units. At the time of the earlier picture, the Post Office was in the back of the ground floor, behind a general grocery store.
The 1990s conversion saw the front half of the ground floor split into, with a take-away delicatessen on the right, and the Post Office on the left. Meanwhile the empty rooms upstairs were converted into two flats, and a third was created in the back half of the ground floor, the whole project being built as affordable housing by the Estate in conjunction with the Bournemouth Churches Housing Association.
When the Post Office moved down to Market Street in April 2000, three local artists took over its premises as a picture framing business and gallery after their experience of successful exhibitions in the Strangways Hall. In 2002, the gallery changed hands, but continued the business, changing hands yet again in 2005, and now operates as the D'Veitch Art Gallery.
Meanwhile, the right-hand half also changed hands in 2002 and again in 2005, and now runs as Bellenie's Bakehouse.
