Westbourne Arcade
29 AND 31, SEAMOOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108852
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Westbourne Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 31, SEAMOOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108852
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Westbourne Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- 29 AND 31, SEAMOOR ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WESTBOURNE ARCADE, 1-23, POOLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- WESTBOURNE ARCADE, 2-24, POOLE ROAD
- Statutory Address 4:
- WESTBOURNE ARCADE, 69 AND 71, POOLE ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 29 AND 31, SEAMOOR ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBOURNE ARCADE, 1-23, POOLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBOURNE ARCADE, 2-24, POOLE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WESTBOURNE ARCADE, 69 AND 71, POOLE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bournemouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 06961 91428
Details
1. POOLE ROAD 5l86 (South Side) Westbourne Arcade [Nos 1 to 25 (odd) and Nos 2 to 24 (even )] Nos 69 and 71. SZ 0691 3/70
II GV
2. Includes Nos 29 and 31 Seamoor Road. 1884-5, Henry Joy (builder). Well-preserved polychrome Gothic shopping arcade. Symmetrical facades to Poole Road and Seamoor Road, red brick with stone dressings. 3 round-headed arches for Arcade entrance, central one taller and half-glazed, with alternating brick and stone voussoirs under pointed relieving arches. Cornice of wings carried up over central arch gable (raised stone erection on top). Scrolly ironwork across central arch, over site of gates. Wings project round quadrant corners: ground floor shops with classical pilasters (original details unaltered on Seamoor Road frontage). Round-arched windows to 1st floor with alternating brick and stone voussoirs, coupled round-headed windows to 1st floor with H J monogram in spandrels under relieving arches and gables, recessed chateau roofs. Interior gently curving: arched glazing bars to shops mostly intact, buff brick 1st floor with red brick bands and stone frieze joining lintels (grotesque corbel heads to cornice). Glazed roof of arched braces with small pitched-roofed lantern, criss-cross of iron tiebeams held centrally by dominant foliage bosses of iron.
Westbourne Arcade Nos 69 and 7l and Nos 29 and 31 Seamoor Road form a group.
Listing NGR: SZ0696191428
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101818
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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