Dower House
DOWER HOUSE, 1300, WIMBORNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232944
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Dower House
- Statutory Address:
- DOWER HOUSE, 1300, WIMBORNE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1232944
- Date first listed:
- 23-Nov-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Dower House
- Statutory Address 1:
- DOWER HOUSE, 1300, WIMBORNE 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:
- DOWER HOUSE, 1300, WIMBORNE 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 08007 96425
Details
The following building shall be added to the list:
SZ 0696 & SZ 0796 BOURNEMOUTH WIMBORNE ROAD SZ 0896 & SZ 0996 (south side), Kinson
6/168; 18/168 No 1300 (Dower House)
GV II
Dower house to Ensbury Manor, now house. Late C18; altered C19 and C20. Brick, pebble-dashed, rendered and painted; plain tiles to front roof pitch, otherwise late C20 concrete tiles, some Welsh slate to outshut. 2 storeys with attic, 3 bays with 2-storey wing to rear right, outshut to rest of rear, and single- storey wing to rear left. Central door of 6 raised and fielded panels below fanlight with radial glazing bars, all in reveal; wooden doorcase has archivolt and pilasters on wreath-decorated plinths with console-bracketed capitals supporting open dentilled pediment. Flanking C19 4-light canted bay windows with sash windows (of 9 panes to upper sashes) and hipped, plain tile roofs. Flush 4-pane sashes to 1st floor with keystones and Phoenix fire insurance plaque between the two on right. 3 hipped dormers with 6-pane sashes. Corniced brick end stacks. Rear: horned 12-pane sash to 1st floor of left wing; right wing, formerly outbuilding, has a C19 2-light casement window, a mid-C20 window and a board stable door on right. Right return: main range has a horned 12-pane sash to each floor. Wing had render incised as ashlar, a mid-C20 door with side-windows, and a 12-pane casement above in a wider architrave; stack at right end. Interior: rear left-hand wing has large fireplace, formerly with bread oven, and queen-strut roof truss. Main range has central full-height closed-string, dog-leg stair with square-section balusters and newels; in the attic the beams have roll-moulded arrises and there is a centre-folding board door at top of the stair with old hinges, and similarly-hinged door to one of the attic rooms.
Listing NGR: SZ0800796425
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101937
- 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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