Listed Building: ST ANNE'S HOSPITAL (412471)

POOLE SZ08NEHAVEN ROAD, Canford Cliffs 958-1/8/215(South East side) 05/10/88 St Anne's Hospital II* Hospital. 1909-12, with later C20 additions. By R Weir Schultz. Flemish bond brickwork, cross-axial stacks and tiled roof. Free Queen Anne style. Parallel curved ranges with central connecting blocks. 2 storeys and attic, single-storey link block; 10:7:10-window range. Entrance front has 2-storey central range with exterior gable stacks and forward-curving single-storey side ranges; central porch with segmental arch and key dated 1910. Keyed flat arches over 6/6-pane sashes. Segmental-arched ridge cupola. 2-storey and attic; 7:14:7-window range symmetrical garden front in 3 sections, the outer ranges set back and angled, and with cross ranges projecting one window deep with ogee gables. Gables have canted bays with pierced balcony parapets, single storey to the end gables and 2 storeys to the centre and flanking gables, which are linked by similar pierced balconies on square brick piers. 6/6/6-pane ground-floor and keyed 6/9-pane first-floor sashes, wide dormers with triple 4/4-pane sashes across the central section, and 4 round-gabled half dormers to the outer wings. These have wide carriage arches flanking the centre section with rusticated archivolts beneath first-floor oculi. The interior courtyards have two 3-storey service towers with pyramidal roofs. INTERIOR: panelled link blocks; light wells have decorative friezes, coffered ceilings, moulded beam soffits, and a fireplace in the dining room with shouldered lintel and Ionic column arcade. One of Schultz's best buildings on a prominent cliff-top site, built as the seaside branch of the Holloway Sanitorium, Surrey. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 331). Listing NGR: SZ0524288784

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