Listed Building: (101809)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 768/13/102
Date assigned 01 August 1974
Date last amended

Description

1. 5186 POOLE HILL (South Side) No 39 (Formerly listed as Norwich Union Building) SZ 0891 13/102 1.8.74. II GV 2. Dignified ashlar-faced commercial classicism, circa 1900, 2 storeys and dormers, only 4 windows wide, with oversized but sensitive detailing. Fluted pilasters between ground floor windows and off-centre doorway support deep entablature and cornice, with panelled parapet-frieze. Similar pilasters, unfluted, between 1st floor windows support another deep entablature, with triglyphs on frieze and far-projecting cornice. White-painted dormers with triangular pediments, set against greenish slate mansard roof and connected by thick cornice along top of roof. Elaborate ground floor business hall with marble columns and chinneypieces and high panelling, modernised 1973-4. 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 196 (even) Commercial Road. Listing NGR: SZ0802391117

Map

Location

Grid reference SZ 0802 9111 (point)
Unitary Authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Unitary Authority (historic) Bournemouth

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Record last edited

Nov 1 2006 4:40PM