Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel)

Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel), Beacon Road

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324712
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1974
List Entry Name:: Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel)
Statutory Address:: Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel), Beacon Road

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Date:: 2001-09-12
Reference:: IOE01/04847/30
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1324712
Date first listed:: 31-Jul-1974
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Feb-1976
List Entry Name:: Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel)
Statutory Address 1:: Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel), Beacon Road

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel), Beacon Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SZ 08492 90708

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/05/2020

SZ 0890 12/90

BEACON ROAD (west side) Highcliffe Houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel)

(Formerly listed as Coastguard Cottages) 1.8.74

II Built as cottages for coastguards. Well-preserved vernacular terrace of houses (now used as service accommodation for Highcliffe Hotel) buff brick, circa 1850, with regular rhythm of paired windows. Main south front articulated by three gables, two windows wide, projecting forward by a whole bay. Windows segment-headed in gables, flat-headed elsewhere, with voussoirs in same brick. On north side windows all segment-headed, with voussoirs in red brick. Slate roof. Two of five chimneys on ridge have been cut down. Lower extension to west.

Listing NGR: SZ0849290708

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Legacy System number:: 101706
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.