Listed Building: PARS CORNER (101811)

1. 5186 POOLE HILL (North Side) Nos 2 and 4 (Pars Corner) SZ 0891 13/104 1.8.74. II GV 2. Rotunda corner shop circa 1860, stucce, white with black dressings, still in Regency seaside style. Entrance arch round-headed between pilasters, with pedimented fascia on big console brackets over. Flanked symmetrically on each side by 3 elegant Quattrocento arches to shop windows, on fluted columns carrying fragments of entablature, moulded plinth carried across continuously below windows. Keystones have heads, male and female. Windows of 2 upper floors plain and almost flush, stringcourses in black. Polygonal hipped roof behind parapet of modern bricks-on-edge. Rear to Norwich Road perhaps later, buff brick with red dressings, thoroughly Victorian. 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: SZ0814391140

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