Entrance building to Boscombe pier, Bournemouth, listed
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Heritage Minister Andrew McIntosh has listed the neck or entrance building to Boscombe Pier in Bournemouth, Dorset at Grade II. The decision to list follows a public consultation.
The entrance building, which dates from 1958-60, comprises four little kiosks at esplanade level set at an angle either side of the pier entrance. There are glazed shelters to either side and lavatories behind and the whole is set under a floating canopy formed of thin concrete slab. The whole is supported on concrete piers and a bastion of rough natural stone. All four kiosks retain their original shop fronts and three retain their original lettering.
Notes to Editors
1. The main purpose of listing a building is to ensure that care will be taken over decisions affecting its future, that any alterations respect the particular character and interest of the building, and that the case for its preservation is taken fully into account in considering the merits of any redevelopment proposals.
2. The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (then known as the Department of National Heritage) announced in March 1995 that there would be public consultation on recommendations for listing arising from English Heritage's thematic studies of post-war and other building types. In August 1995 the Department announced that the consultation procedure would be extended to proposals to spot-list individual post-war buildings. However, the Secretary of State may take action to list a building at any time on the basis of information before her if she considers it to be under threat of alteration or demolition.
3. Further details of English Heritage's recommendations can be obtained from Historic Environment Designation Branch, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 2-4 Cockspur Street, London SW1Y 5DH.
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