Pars Corner is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. Shop.
Pars Corner
- WRENN ID
- gentle-chancel-hawthorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1974
- Type
- Shop
- Address
- Pars Corner, 2 and 4, Poole Hill
- OS grid reference
- SZ 081 911
- Coordinates
- 50.71982, -1.886
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Pars Corner is a rotunda corner shop built around 1860, featuring stucco in white with black dressings, and retains elements of Regency seaside style. The entrance has a round-headed arch between pilasters, topped with a pedimented fascia supported by large console brackets. On either side of the entrance, there are three elegant Quattrocento arches leading to shop windows, set on fluted columns that carry fragments of an entablature. A moulded plinth runs continuously below the windows. The keystones of the arches feature male and female heads. The windows on the two upper floors are plain and almost flush, with stringcourses in black. Behind a parapet made of modern bricks-on-edge is a polygonal hipped roof. The rear, facing Norwich Road, is likely a later addition, constructed of buff brick with red dressings, showcasing a thoroughly Victorian style.
Pars Corner is part of a group that includes 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, as well as Nos 166 to 196 (even) Commercial Road.
Local climate
Pars Corner 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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