Brookside and Brookside Cottage
Brookside and Brookside Cottage, Exeter Road
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324736
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- Brookside and Brookside Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Brookside and Brookside Cottage, Exeter Road
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- Date:
- 2001-09-20
- Reference:
- IOE01/04847/31
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324736
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 27-Feb-1976
- List Entry Name:
- Brookside and Brookside Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Brookside and Brookside Cottage, Exeter 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:
- Brookside and Brookside Cottage, Exeter 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 08788 90878
Details
SZ 0890
12/5
EXETER ROAD (east side)
Brookside and Brookside Cottage
(Formerly listed as Brookside)
1.8.74.
II
Now part of White Hermitage Hotel. Italianate stucco villa, circa 1850, included partly for historical reasons - John Keble stayed here from October 1865 and died here in March 1866 - but mainly for picturesque quality of south-east corner tower on eminence above Pleasure Gardens. Tower four-storey with coupled windows, round-arched and flat headed, on first and second floors, 'belfry' stage with triplet windows of thin stepped Moorish type, capped by pyramidal slate roof. South front of three storey house has continuous balconies on two upper floors between tower and three-storey canted bay under gable at south-west corner. Overhanging eaves.
Listing NGR: SZ0878890878
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101743
- 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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