Listed Building record MDO15500 - Pembroke Hotel, Poole Hill, Bournemouth

Sizeable Italianate former hotel building of three storeys, built circa 1850, on a symmetrical convex curve. Frontage is stucco. Now split into a number of different properties.

Well-preserved and sizeable Italianate hotel, circa 1850, 3 storeys, all of stucco, painted white with 'dressings' in black. Symmetrical convex curve, with main block 7 windows wide flanked on each side by wings 3 windows wide. Each bay of wings and central bay of main block articulated by giant rusticated pilaster strips. Central bay has tripartite entrance divided by pilasters, with 2 tripartite windows over, similarly divided, with triangular pediment on top. Other windows of main block plain sashes on all 3 floors, except shop windows to right of entrance with coupled consoles on fascia. Frieze to ground floor, cornices to 1st and 2nd floors. Straight parapet rising over pilaster strips to raised erections with balls on top and over central bay to semi-circular pedimental feature. Wings have bar windows and shop windows (Nos 13-15) below, blocking course on top shallower than central parapet.

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 166 to 196 (even) Commercial Road. Grade 2. <1>

<1> DOE (HHR), 27 Feb 76, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth 1976, 480 (Scheduling record). SWX3488.

<2> Historic England, Historic England Archive, BF105683 (Index). SDO14738.

COSMOPOLITAN HOTEL, PEMBROKE HOTEL (A), 13-31 POOLE HILL, BOURNEMOUTH

<3> National Record of the Historic Environment, 1319724 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

Record last edited

Aug 30 2024 10:23AM