San Remo Towers And Retaining Walls

Heritage listing

Details SZ 1191 BOURNEMOUTH SEA ROAD 22/10057 San Remo Towers and attached retaining walls II Includes: San Remo Towers, and attached retaining walls, MICHELGROVE ROAD Block of 164 flats, with penthouse and office, over basement garage. 1935-8 by Hector O'Hamilton. Pale brick, with areas of render, particularly to ground and upper floors, faience tiling, and concrete floors. Flat roof behind high parapets edged with pantiles, and with pantiled roofs over staircase towers and over penthouse. Single stack serving boiler house. U-shaped plan around central courtyard, set over garage. The flats, on five floors, are set in five blocks, with corridor access via separate residents and trade stairs and lift from each of six entrance doors (the central block' C' is served by the main entrance as well as its own). Through access between blocks on ground floor only. The estate office projects on the ground floor of Block' C'. The exterior is in a delightful Spanish mission style, with extensive use of coloured faience around doors and in window jambs. Metal casement windows with small panes, round-arched to ground and fifth floor, where coloured jambs predominate. Projecting balconies of brick and render to the larger flats, with coloured balustrades and supported on console brackets. Glass rooflights to the basement car park. The six entrances with double panelled doors, set in lively decorated surrounds of brightly coloured faience, with barleysugar engaged columns under Ionic capitals and block designation (A-E, main entrance) in faience lettering. French doors with small panes to courtyard. Attached brick retaining walls at entrance to courtyard. Interiors: The residents' staircases with jazz modern metal balustrading, those for tradesmen with stick balusters. Interiors of fla

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.