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Latitude: 50.7168 / 50°43'0"N
Longitude: -1.9033 / 1°54'11"W
OS Eastings: 406925
OS Northings: 90801
OS Grid: SZ069908
Mapcode National: GBR X40.68
Mapcode Global: FRA 67X5.SFR
Plus Code: 9C2WP38W+PM
Entry Name: Herbert Hospital (Including Detached Summerhouse)
Listing Date: 27 February 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1108882
English Heritage Legacy ID: 101703
ID on this website: 101108882
Location: Alum Chine, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH4
County: Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Bournemouth
Traditional County: Hampshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Dorset
Church of England Parish: Bournemouth St Ambrose
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
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1. ALUMHURST ROAD
5180 (East Side)
Herbert Hospital
(including detached
summerhouse)
SZ 0690 2/69
II
2.
Originally the Herbert Memorial Convalescent Home, l865-7 by T H Wyatt. Very
competently, grouped asymmetrical Gothic, Purbeck stone with red brick bands,
mostly mullioned windows. Porch-tower with statue and clock (in diamond frame),
short spire with lucarnes on brick and stone machicolated cornice. Few windows
on entrance side: horizontal emphasis of hipped roofs, brick bands and chamfered
corners. East wing connected by single-storey link up hill to former chapel
with traceried windows and cupola, flanked by lower room with bows. West wing
with canted bay facing down drive and 3 gables to south. Centre of south front
almost symmetrical (but not axial with entrance): two 2-storey canted bays with
red brick spandrels. Single-storey south-east wing. Chimneys by contrast of
stucco and Italianate with bracketed cornice and openwork frame to pots. Edwardian
summerhouse of white timber circa 1910, with battered corners and splayed hipped
roof, detached from main building.
Listing NGR: SZ0692590801
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