6, ST MICHAEL'S ROAD
6, ST MICHAEL'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324754
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 6, ST MICHAEL'S ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- 6, ST MICHAEL'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1324754
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 6, ST MICHAEL'S ROAD
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, ST MICHAEL'S 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:
- 6, ST MICHAEL'S 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 08185 91095
Details
1. 5186 ST MICHAEL'S ROAD (West Side) No 6 SZ 089l 13/117 1.8.74
II
2. Built as Freemasons' Hall,circa 1870, but still of Italianate type of circa 1840 (style of Charles Fowler). Elegant facade of colour-washed brick dressed in stucco, on basement increasing in depth down hill. Tall central bay with arched window (moulded frame, sill on consoles) flanked by pairs of giant pilasters supporting entablature and pediment. Main hall set back on either side, with clerestory of small arched windows, behind lower wings with arched windows, pilasters and entablature. In place of left-hand window, bigger arch for entrance, secondary entrance at other end (to basement) added 1910 - good Michelangesque frame with rusticated piers and swagged keystone under segmental pediment. Hall interior has shallow segmental plaster ceiling on coving: end bays with ribs (carved with foliage) radiating from circle, central bay, also with circle, has transverse ribs connecting pilasters on side walls, flanking projecting bay under external pediment and segmentally pedimented doorway opposite, both with dentil cornices. Through doorway is lobby, parallel to hall, with staircase to basement: pitched skylight over semi-circular ceiling ribs, walls given frenchy plaster panelling in 1910. Beyond is second larger hall added 1910: plaster ceiling of 4-centred section with flat skylight in centre and arched ribs carried on elaborate corbels with console brackets and blocks with hanging tassels, plaster panelling to walls.
Listing NGR: SZ0818591095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 101838
- 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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