Listed Building: TOWER HOUSE (412468)

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Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 958-1/14/27
Date assigned 30 June 1980
Date last amended

Description

POOLE SZ0391 COMMERCIAL ROAD 958-1/14/27 (North side) 30/06/80 No.45 Tower House II House, now office. Mid C19. Stucco with stucco stacks and a slate hipped roof. Double-depth plan. Double-fronted with pilaster strips and central bay set forward, and a square crenellated tower projecting through the ridge with lozenges above the cornice and round-arched windows. A distyle porch with bases and cornice to a half-glazed 6-panel door; ground-floor windows have casements with margin bars and small-paned window above transoms; first-floor outer 8/8-pane and central 6/6-pane sashes. INTERIOR not inspected. An unusual Late Georgian house, distinguished by its central tower. (RCHME: County of Dorset (South East): London: 1970-: 238; Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Newman J: Dorset: London: 1972-: 336). Listing NGR: SZ0312891572

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Location

Grid reference SZ 0312 9157 (point)
Unitary Authority Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Unitary Authority (historic) Poole

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Record last edited

Mar 31 2011 3:46AM