Listed Building: BROOKSIDE AND BROOKSIDE COTTAGE (101743)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 768/12/5
Date assigned 01 August 1974
Date last amended

Description

1. 5186 EXETER ROAD (East Side) Brookside and Brookside Cottage (Formerly listed as Brookside) SZ O890 12/5 1.8.74. II 2. 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 1860 - but mainly for picturesque quality of south-east corner tower on eminence above Pleasure Gardens. Tower 4-storey with coupled windows, round- arched and flat headed, on 1st and 2nd floors, 'belfry' stage with triplet windows of thin stepped Moorish type, capped by pyramidal slate roof. South front of 3 storey house has continuous balconies on 2 upper floors between tower and 3-storey canted bay under gable at south-west corner. Overhanging eaves. Listing NGR: SZ0878890878

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Location

Grid reference SZ 0878 9087 (point)
Unitary Authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Unitary Authority (historic) Bournemouth

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Record last edited

Nov 1 2006 4:40PM