Branksome Dene Convalescent Home
BRANKSOME DENE CONVALESCENT HOME, ALUMHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324710
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Branksome Dene Convalescent Home
- Statutory Address:
- BRANKSOME DENE CONVALESCENT HOME, ALUMHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324710
- Date first listed:
- 17-Jan-1971
- List Entry Name:
- Branksome Dene Convalescent Home
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRANKSOME DENE CONVALESCENT HOME, ALUMHURST 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:
- BRANKSOME DENE CONVALESCENT HOME, ALUMHURST 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 06957 90324
Details
1. ALUMHURST ROAD 5l86 (West Side) Branksome Dene Convalescent Home SZ 0690 2/68 17.1.71.
II
2. 1860, E B Lamb for C A King, vastly enlarged circa 1880 for Lord Wimborne (probably by W H Romaine-Walker) and circa 1913-14 for Sir Ernest Cassel (interiors by Sir Guy Dawber). Original villa plain Barry-Italianate, buff brick and stucco, 3 windows wide. 3 canted bays to garden (west) elaborate wrought-iron verandah with pairs of fluted Ionic colonnettes at centre and ends, scrolly openwork arches between. Garden terrace balustraded, with urns, large formal garden. Entrance front (east) with rusticated stucco ground floor, tripartite windows on 1st floor with segmental pediments over centre lights. Console-bracketed eaves, balustraded parapet. Big south wing circa 1880 of similar character (2 more canted bays to garden). North wing with lower service rooms, extended circa 1914 by long plain range recessed behind earlier Jacobean billiard-room. Interior has 2 living rooms from Lamb, with rich plaster cornices and rosettes, mixing arabesque, French and foliage patterns. Staircase hall skylit, with glazed round-arched clerestory and tall tripartite doorway to service wing, elaborate scrolly stair rail. But the house's importance lies in the interior of the south wing: 3 rooms and a garden lobby, all interconnected by sliding doors. 2 end rooms have surprisingly classical interiors of circa 1880, each with genuine Adam-period chimneypiece surmounted by richly garlanded round-headed window (with coat-of-arms at apex). Bay windows flanked by fluted piers, friezes of alternating triglyphs and medallions, ceiling frame of guilloche. The present Board Room is a classical cube of circa 1914 by Dawber. Walls panelled in mahogany with segmental pedimental over overmantel, genuine Georgian fireplace (frieze of Diana). Deep coving to ceiling, acanthus pattern to circular ceiling frame. Also by Dawber the groin-vaulted passage to south wing.
Listing NGR: SZ0695790324
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101702
- 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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