The Arcade
THE ARCADE, 1-22, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153365
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Arcade
- Statutory Address:
- THE ARCADE, 1-22, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
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- 2001-09-05
- Reference:
- IOE01/04847/05
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1153365
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Arcade
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ARCADE, 1-22, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE ARCADE, 22A,23 AND 23A, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE ARCADE, 28, OLD 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:
- THE ARCADE, 1-22, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE ARCADE, 22A,23 AND 23A, OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE ARCADE, 28, OLD 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 08784 91167
Details
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 15 November 2022 to change numerals to words, to remove section numbers from description, to correct typos, to remove references to adjacent unlisted building and to reformat to current standards.
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SZ 0891 13/132
OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (South Side)
The Arcade [Nos 1 to 22 (consec) and Nos 22A, 23 and 23A] No 28
1.8.74.
II
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1886-73, Henry Joy (builder), of stucco in Regency style. Facades to Old Christchurch Road and Gervis place flanked by three-storey rotundas ('pepper pots') which have lost their original stilted metal-roofed domes: Corinthian pilasters and dentil cornice to 1st floor, Tuscan and plainer cornice (with blocking course) to 2nd. Between them, tripartite entrances remodelled circa 1935, with glazed facade above to semi-circular gable: radiating half-wheel of arched glazing bars, projecting forward on Gervis Place front, over miniature glazed arcade, 2nd tier of wheel arches enclosed by dentil cornice of gable. Gervis Place front includes three bays of shopping frontage to east and four to west, also stucco, at west end Bright's Staff Entrance has pilasters and entablature. Old Christchurch Road front has one bay of stucco shops to east, two to west.
Interior has one good Victorian shop front (Peter Roberts, formerly William and Treadgold); arched glazing bars, flanking pilasters and console brackets carrying miniature coupled pilasters and pediment panel, fascia with dentil cornice and rich openwork cresting rising in centre. Most upper windows of plain Georgian shape, but some are recessed canted oriels. Moulded cornice supports iron arch-braced roof of 1872-3 with steeply pitched lantern.
The Arcade [Nos 1 to 23A (consec)], No 28 with House of Fraser, and Gervis Hall (Hornes), Gervis Place form a group.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101803
- 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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