GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE

GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE, HOLDENHURST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140115
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
Statutory Address:: GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE, HOLDENHURST ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1140115
Date first listed:: 25-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE
Statutory Address 1:: GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE, HOLDENHURST ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GENTLEMEN'S PUBLIC CONVENIENCE, HOLDENHURST ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 10549 92522

Details

1. HOLDENHURST ROAD 5186 (North Side)

Gentlemen's Public Convenien SZ19 SW 23/224

II

2. Public convenience. c1905. F.W. Lacey. Red brick; rendering to plinth, cornice, consoles and dome, possibly on concrete. A small circular structure part sunk below street, in wide debouchment of Shelbourne Close into Holdenhurst Road. Edwardian Lutyenesque style, a round brick drum with four inclined brick buttresses, set to plinth, and with plain architrave; to each of three faces two small slit windows, to the fourth a flight of steps down to panelled door, flanked by dwarf brick walls with decorative iron railings on stone coping. Set in above drum on four consoles, a hemispherical dome to moulded cornice, and on each of four faces below to second drum, groups of 3 windows some with leading. A witty and carefully detailed solution to a utilitarian structure.

Listing NGR: SZ1054992522

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Legacy System number:: 352108
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.