Pars Corner
PARS CORNER, 2 AND 4, POOLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304327
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Pars Corner
- Statutory Address:
- PARS CORNER, 2 AND 4, POOLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1304327
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Pars Corner
- Statutory Address 1:
- PARS CORNER, 2 AND 4, POOLE HILL
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:
- PARS CORNER, 2 AND 4, POOLE HILL
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 08143 91140
Details
1. 5186 POOLE HILL (North Side) Nos 2 and 4 (Pars Corner) SZ 0891 13/104 1.8.74.
II GV
2. Rotunda corner shop circa 1860, stucce, white with black dressings, still in Regency seaside style. Entrance arch round-headed between pilasters, with pedimented fascia on big console brackets over. Flanked symmetrically on each side by 3 elegant Quattrocento arches to shop windows, on fluted columns carrying fragments of entablature, moulded plinth carried across continuously below windows. Keystones have heads, male and female. Windows of 2 upper floors plain and almost flush, stringcourses in black. Polygonal hipped roof behind parapet of modern bricks-on-edge. Rear to Norwich Road perhaps later, buff brick with red dressings, thoroughly Victorian.
Nos 1 to 17 (odd) Pembroke Hotel, Nos 25 to 31 (odd), Nos 39 to 45 (odd) and Nos 2 to 34 (even) Poole Hill form a group with Nos l66 to 196 (even) Commercial Road.
Listing NGR: SZ0814391140
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101811
- 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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