Listed Building: THE ARCADE (101803)

1. 5186 OLD CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (South Side) The Arcade [Nos 1 to 22 (consec) and Nos 22A, 23 and 23A] No 28 SZ 0891 13/132 1.8.74. II GV 2. Forms part of a group with items 13/139, 13/140 and 13/141 in Gervis Place (group value), 1886-73, Henry Joy (builder), of stucco in Regency style. Facades to Old Christchurch Road and Gervis place flanked by 3-storey rotundas ('pepper pots') which have lost their original stilted metal-roofed domes: Corinthian pilasters and dentil cornice to 1st floor, Tuscan and plainer cornice (with blocking course) to 2nd. Between them, tripartite entrances remodelled circa 1935, with glazed facade above to semi-circular gable: radiating half-wheel of arched glazing bars, projecting forward on Gervis Place front, over miniature glazed arcade, 2nd tier of wheel arches enclosed by dentil cornice of gable. Gervis Place front includes 3 bays of shopping frontage to east and 4 to west, also stucco, at west end Bright's Staff Entrance has pilasters and entablature. Old Christchurch Road front has 1 bay of stucco shops to east, 2 to west. Interior has one good Victorian shop front (Peter Roberts, formerly William and Treadgold); arched glazing bars, flanking pilasters and console brackets carrying miniature coupled pilasters and pediment panel, fascia with dentil cornice and rich openwork cresting rising in centre. Most upper windows of plain Georgian shape, but some are recessed canted oriels. Moulded cornice supports iron arch-braced roof of 1872-3 with steeply pitched lantern. The Arcade [Nos 1 to 23A (consec)], No 28 with Dingles, Anderson and McAuley and Gervis Hall (Hornes), Gervis Place form a group. Listing NGR: SZ0878491167

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