SDO21065 - Newbery Steps Cricket Pavillion, Dean Park, Cavendish Road, Bournemouth: Results of historic building recording

‘An historic building record of the Newbery Steps Cricket Pavilion, Dean Park, Cavendish Road, Bournemouth BH1 1RB (SZ 0909 9194) was prepared by AC Archaeology in May 2023, on behalf of Dean Park Ltd, prior to its demolition and rebuilding. The cricket pavilion is not designated in its own right, but considered to be curtilage Listed in association with the adjacent Grade II Listed Cooper Dean Cricket Pavilion, which was constructed in 1902. Both are located within the Dean Park Conservation Area. The former cricket ground is a green space located within a planned development (from the 1860s onwards) of villas on the Dean Park Estate. The arrangement of Cavendish Road around the cricket ground indicates that this open space formed part of the planned development. The Newbery Steps Cricket Pavilion probably dates to the 1870s, and was supplemented by the Cooper Dean Cricket Pavilion in 1902; parts of the building remained in use until the recent past. A sequence of alterations to the building dating from the late-19th or early-20th century up to the later 20th century has been recorded from historic maps and from the building’s architecture. The most significant was the addition of a terraced balcony on its east side facing the cricket pitch’