Listed Building record MDO15421 - Gentleman's Public Convenience, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth
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Summary
Public convenience built about 1905, by F. W. Lacey (Borough Engineer). A small circular brick structure, partly sunk below street level, with rendered dome.
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Full Description
Public convenience. c1905. F.W. Lacey. Red brick; rendering to plinth, cornice, consoles and dome, possibly on concrete. A small circular structure part sunk below street, in wide debouchment of Shelbourne Close into Holdenhurst Road. Edwardian Lutyenesque style, a round brick drum with four inclined brick buttresses, set to plinth, and with plain architrave; to each of three faces two small slit windows, to the fourth a flight of steps down to panelled door, flanked by dwarf brick walls with decorative iron railings on stone coping. Set in above drum on four consoles, a hemispherical dome to moulded cornice, and on each of four faces below to second drum, groups of 3 windows some with leading. A witty and carefully detailed solution to a utilitarian structure.
Sources/Archives (1)
- --- SWX4461 Scheduling record: Department of the Environment. 15-Feb-1994. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994. Vol 768.
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred SZ 10547 92522 (7m by 6m) |
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| Map sheet | SZ19SW |
| Unitary Authority | Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole |
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Record last edited
Apr 3 2013 12:37PM
