Description

SZ 1091 + 1191 CHRISTCHURCH ROAD (north side) Boscombe 22/248 No 506 II

Commercial premises. Late C19. Stuccoed brick with ashlar dressings; roof not visible. 3 storeys, 3 bays. Elaborate ashlar shop front has: round-arched door- way (with late C20 door) on left and round-arched window on right, flanking wider central window which is square-headed with rounded top corners (both windows late C20 plate glass); the bays are defined by panelled and fluted pilasters with decorative capitals set on tall plinth which, below windows has raised and fielded panels broken by lozenges; the pilasters support entablature, the frieze of which is covered by 1980s fascia board; above cornice is balustrade, having central panel with anthemion and floral decoration under swan's-neck pediment with fruit swag below and ball on cushion finial above. On upper floors, bays are defined by giant pilasters broken by cornices (paired to each floor); pilasters flanking central bay rise to break through parapet, flanking paired blind panels and supporting triangular pediment; to either side the coped parapet is treated as a broken swan's- neck pediment, the outer pilasters with ball on cushion finials. First and second floor windows are sashes, wider to centre, having small-pane upper sashes, single- pane lower sashes and all with ashlar architraves, those on first floor having floating triangular pediments. End stack to right. No 506 was built as part of a row of similar buildings, the others now demolished or much altered.

Listing NGR: SZ1117091805

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)