17-21, WEST HILL ROAD, 41-45, POOLE HILL
17-21, WEST HILL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324731
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 17-21, WEST HILL ROAD, 41-45, POOLE HILL
- Statutory Address:
- 17-21, WEST HILL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324731
- Date first listed:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- 17-21, WEST HILL ROAD, 41-45, POOLE HILL
- Statutory Address 1:
- 17-21, WEST HILL ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- 41-45, 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:
- 17-21, WEST HILL ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 41-45, 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 08008 91121
Details
1. 5186 POOLE HILL (South Side) Nos 41 to 45 (odd) SZ 0891 13/103
II GV
2. Includes Nos 17 to 21 (odd) West Hill Road. Formerly the Bournemouth School of Art, circa 1880, ground floor now remodelled for motor showrooms. 3 storeys, pink brick with sparse stone dressings (bases, capitals, cornices). Upper floors divided in 3 by giant Ionic pilasters of brick, supporting entablature, modillion cornice, and pediment (containing sculptured coat-of-arms) flanked by balustraded parapet. 1st floor windows round-arched, except wider flattened central light, and marked off by small Composite pilasters. 2nd floor windows straight-headed, also divided by pilasters, with capitals wider than pilasters and supported on console brackets. Rear elevation (south) to Westhill Road of same materials tripartite windows with brick pilaster-mullions on 3 floors, topped by long glazed dormer strip of studios; shaped gable with Venetian window.
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 l96 (even) Commercial (Road), also the West Hill Road facades of Nos 1 to 11 (odd), Nos 17 to 21 (odd) and Nos 4l to 45 (odd) form a further group with The Pembroke Arms, West Hill Road.
Listing NGR: SZ0800891121
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101810
- 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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