Herbert Hospital (Including Detached Summerhouse)
HERBERT HOSPITAL (INCLUDING DETACHED SUMMERHOUSE), ALUMHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108882
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Herbert Hospital (Including Detached Summerhouse)
- Statutory Address:
- HERBERT HOSPITAL (INCLUDING DETACHED SUMMERHOUSE), ALUMHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1108882
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Herbert Hospital (Including Detached Summerhouse)
- Statutory Address 1:
- HERBERT HOSPITAL (INCLUDING DETACHED SUMMERHOUSE), ALUMHURST ROAD
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.
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:
- HERBERT HOSPITAL (INCLUDING DETACHED SUMMERHOUSE), ALUMHURST 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 06925 90801
Details
1. ALUMHURST ROAD 5180 (East Side) Herbert Hospital (including detached summerhouse) SZ 0690 2/69
II
2. Originally the Herbert Memorial Convalescent Home, l865-7 by T H Wyatt. Very competently, grouped asymmetrical Gothic, Purbeck stone with red brick bands, mostly mullioned windows. Porch-tower with statue and clock (in diamond frame), short spire with lucarnes on brick and stone machicolated cornice. Few windows on entrance side: horizontal emphasis of hipped roofs, brick bands and chamfered corners. East wing connected by single-storey link up hill to former chapel with traceried windows and cupola, flanked by lower room with bows. West wing with canted bay facing down drive and 3 gables to south. Centre of south front almost symmetrical (but not axial with entrance): two 2-storey canted bays with red brick spandrels. Single-storey south-east wing. Chimneys by contrast of stucco and Italianate with bracketed cornice and openwork frame to pots. Edwardian summerhouse of white timber circa 1910, with battered corners and splayed hipped roof, detached from main building.
Listing NGR: SZ0692590801
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101703
- 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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