Latitude: 50.7196 / 50°43'10"N
Longitude: -1.8877 / 1°53'15"W
OS Eastings: 408023
OS Northings: 91117
OS Grid: SZ080911
Mapcode National: GBR X60.4Q
Mapcode Global: FRA 67Y5.LDR
Plus Code: 9C2WP496+VW
Entry Name: 39, Poole Hill
Listing Date: 1 August 1974
Last Amended: 27 February 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1153405
English Heritage Legacy ID: 101809
ID on this website: 101153405
Location: West Cliff, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset, BH2
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 John with St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Winchester
Tagged with: Building
1. 5186 POOLE HILL (South Side) No 39 (Formerly listed as Norwich Union Building) SZ 0891 13/102 1.8.74. II GV
2. Dignified ashlar-faced commercial classicism, circa 1900, 2 storeys and dormers, only 4 windows wide, with oversized but sensitive detailing. Fluted pilasters between ground floor windows and off-centre doorway support deep entablature and cornice, with panelled parapet-frieze. Similar pilasters, unfluted, between 1st floor windows support another deep entablature, with triglyphs on frieze and far-projecting cornice. White-painted dormers with triangular pediments, set against greenish slate mansard roof and connected by thick cornice along top of roof. Elaborate ground floor business hall with marble columns and chinneypieces and high panelling, modernised 1973-4.
Nos 1 to 17 (odd) Pembroke Hotel, Nos 25 to 31 (odd), Nos 39 to 45 (odd) and Nos 2 to 34 (even) Poole Hill form a group with Nos l66 to 196 (even) Commercial Road.
Listing NGR: SZ0802391117
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