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SX06NE
08/06/72

BODMIN
WESTHEATH AVENUE (A389)
Former St Lawrence's Hospital

(Formerly listed as St Lawrence's Hospital)

GV
II*

Former Hospital. 1818. By John Foulston. Extended c1838 by George
Wightwick and in later C19.
MATERIALS: squared pink stone to front of later entrance wing,
otherwise rubble walls with plinth, mid-floor string and
segmental arches; coursed stone to late C19 additions at ends
of wings; dry slate roof to front wing, otherwise mostly rag
slate: central polygonal roof with central brick stack and
radiating wings with hipped returns at ends and axial brick
stacks; small octagonal roof, presumably for parapet stairs,
fronting the rear wing.
PLAN: large panoptical plan with 6 original deep radial wings
all with later C19 additions at the ends; between the front
wings is a tapered entrance addition with segmental ends to
the front part linked to flanking quadrant walls.
EXTERIOR: original hornless sashes with glazing bars except
for original latticed oriels to central block between wings or
flanking the central block and some later sashes to additions.
Symmetrical 1:3:1-window range entrance block has granite
plinth and stucco pilasters to round-arched ground-floor
openings, moulded architraves to segmental-arched 1st-floor
openings with moulded sills on brackets and moulded eaves
entablature; moulded cast-iron gutters. 3 linked sashes over
tripartite loggia fronting central 4-panel door and spoked
fanlight flanked by sashes with fanlight heads. Some of the
wings have last 3 bays surmounted by a triangular pediment.
Between most of the wings survive the original symmetrical
2-window fronts of the central building, with 1st-floor oriels
and central doorways flanked by wide sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A notable and relatively unaltered example of an early C19
hospital built on the panoptical plan.
(Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: 1978-: 319; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and
Radcliffe E: Cornwall: 1970-: 43).

Listing NGR: SX0592066879

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Hospital of St Lawrence, Bodmin at Wikipedia
• Wikidata IDs Q14956867 Q17532525

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets