Gentlemen'S Public Convenience is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 November 1994. Public convenience.

Gentlemen'S Public Convenience

WRENN ID
forgotten-gable-nightshade
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
Country
England
Date first listed
25 November 1994
Type
Public convenience
Source
Historic England listing

Description

  1. HOLDENHURST ROAD 5186 (North Side)

Gentlemen's Public Convenien SZ19 SW 23/224

II

  1. Public convenience. c1905. F.W. Lacey. Red brick; rendering to plinth, cornice, consoles and dome, possibly on concrete. A small circular structure part sunk below street, in wide debouchment of Shelbourne Close into Holdenhurst Road. Edwardian Lutyenesque style, a round brick drum with four inclined brick buttresses, set to plinth, and with plain architrave; to each of three faces two small slit windows, to the fourth a flight of steps down to panelled door, flanked by dwarf brick walls with decorative iron railings on stone coping. Set in above drum on four consoles, a hemispherical dome to moulded cornice, and on each of four faces below to second drum, groups of 3 windows some with leading. A witty and carefully detailed solution to a utilitarian structure.

Listing NGR: SZ1054992522

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