Listed Building record MDO15421 - Gentleman's Public Convenience, Holdenhurst Road, Bournemouth

Public convenience built about 1905, by F. W. Lacey (Borough Engineer). A small circular brick structure, partly sunk below street level, with rendered dome.

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.

Department of the Environment, 15-Feb-1994, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest: Borough of Bournemouth amendment 1994 (Scheduling record). SWX4461.

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