Theatre Attached to West of Boscombe Manor (Shelley Manor)
THEATRE ATTACHED TO WEST OF BOSCOMBE MANOR (SHELLEY MANOR), BEECHWOOD AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271920
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Theatre Attached to West of Boscombe Manor (Shelley Manor)
- Statutory Address:
- THEATRE ATTACHED TO WEST OF BOSCOMBE MANOR (SHELLEY MANOR), BEECHWOOD AVENUE
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271920
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Theatre Attached to West of Boscombe Manor (Shelley Manor)
- Statutory Address 1:
- THEATRE ATTACHED TO WEST OF BOSCOMBE MANOR (SHELLEY MANOR), BEECHWOOD AVENUE
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:
- THEATRE ATTACHED TO WEST OF BOSCOMBE MANOR (SHELLEY MANOR), BEECHWOOD AVENUE
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 11899 91599
Details
SZ 1191 BOURNEMOUTH BEECHWOOD AVENUE
Boscombe
768/22/10056
Theatre attached to West of
Boscombe Manor (Shelley Manor)
II
Country house private theatre. 1865-6; possibly by Joseph Peacock; for Sir Percy Florence Shelley; altered 1870. Red brick with stone dressings. Slate hipped roof with deep eaves. Later [C20] brick stack on west side. PLAN: Rectangular plan auditorium with stage at west end and attached to Boscombe Manor [not included] at east end. EXTERIOR: One storey and attic. 2:5 bays, left two bays project, brick pilasters and stringcourses between bays, ground floor french casements, lunettes above, and stone balustrade/frieze of linked roundels to attic casements set under eaves. The balustrade, stringcourses and pilasters continued on projection to left, the left bay with lower 2-storey wing on which brick stringcourses and pilasters continue; lunettes on east and west sides and two 4-pane sashes on front; large C20 brick stack on SW corner. Brick pilasters and strings on west side. Later additions on north elevation. INTERIOR: Auditorium has moulded plaster ceiling cornices and plastered beams on console brackets. Private box on east side with flanking consoles and sliding shutters. Moulded elliptical proscenium with imposts. The auditorium was originally painted with murals. Raised stage without machinery. Floor of auditorium is not raked. NOTE: Boscombe Manor was bought in 1851 by Sir Percy Florence Shelley [1819-1889], son of the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft. He remodelled the earlier C19 house in the 1850s and built a temporary private theatre in the grounds, which he replaced by this theatre in 1865-6.
Listing NGR: SZ1189991599
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476958
- 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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