Bournemouth Natural Science Society is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 February 1976. Villa.
Bournemouth Natural Science Society
- WRENN ID
- ancient-hammer-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth East MP: Tom Hayes (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 February 1976
- Type
- Villa
- Address
- Bournemouth Natural Science Society, 39, Christchurch Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 102 914
- Coordinates
- 50.7224, -1.85624
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Bournemouth Natural Science Society is a well-preserved polychrome villa built around 1865. It has two storeys and a basement, featuring a mixed architectural style. The building is constructed of buff brick on a grey brick plinth, with red brick bands and bright red brick lintels and voussoirs. The windows are round-arched, segmental, or flat-headed, and are grouped in combinations of 2, 3, 4, or 5. A prominent three-storey corner tower has a pyramid tiled roof, a cast-iron finial, and a flanking chimney. Above the tower, there is a timber cornice over a row of small straight-headed attic windows, with brick panelling in the 'belfry' area. A timber porch with heavily chamfered openwork framing and balustrading leads up steps against the tower, topped with a half hipped roof. The lower eastern wing extends to a two-storey gable, while the garden front features a rectangular bay window. There is also a lecture hall to the south-east, designed in a similar style but built in 1920.
Local climate
Bournemouth Natural Science Society receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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