Royal Arcade
ROYAL ARCADE, 1-32, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152825
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- ROYAL ARCADE, 1-32, CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1152825
- Date first listed:
- 12-Nov-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Royal Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYAL ARCADE, 1-32, CHRISTCHURCH 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:
- ROYAL ARCADE, 1-32, CHRISTCHURCH 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 11345 91909
Details
1. CHRISTCHURCH ROAD 5186 (North Side) 12.11.75. No 562 - No 566 - Royal Arcade [Nos 1 to 32 (consec)] SZ 1091 22/236
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2. Includes Nos 2 to 18 Haviland Road West. L-plan shopping arcade (from Christchurch Road to Palmerston Road), 1892-3, Lawson and Donkin. Mixed Renaissance facade, red brick with stone, stucco and buff brick dressings: triple-arched stucco entrance to arcade, doubled in depth, over it, vast glazed lunette outlined in buff brick with rosette in each spandrel and ornate circular balcony corbelled out of keystone on sculptured plumes, all enclosed by shaped gable with 3 stepped round-arched windows, central one with septfoil tracery, behind flanking balustrades high splayed hipped roof rising to cupola with segmental pedimented bull's eye and square leaded dome with obelisk finial and vane. Symmetrical side wings, 3 storeys, with rounded corners to centre, pilastered shopfronts with egg-and-tongue cornice, scrolled pediments to 1st floor mullioned and transom windows within blind round-headed arcade, mullioned and transomed 2nd moor windows, lunette with bull's eye over in shaped gable. Similar wings to Palmerston Road facade, where the central lunette of the arcade is framed in simple flat-parapetted red brick walling. Red brick rear to Haviland Road West has workshop-type shops with living accommodation over (bargeboarded dormers). The Arcade itself has 2 walks, each of 8 bays, meeting at central octagon. Shop fronts with detached ornamental iron co1umns, lst floor windows with Cinquecento tracery in glazing bars; roof with transverse iron arches supporting pitched roof of glass with pitched lantern down centre. Octagon has bow shop front to east supporting big ornamental bowed balcony (perhaps originally a cafe).
The Royal Arcade Nos 562 and 566 and the Hippodrome form a group.
Listing NGR: SZ1134591909
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101728
- 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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