Description

BODMIN

SX0767 FORE STREET
629-1/2/47 (South side)
08/06/72 No.42
with attached stables and remains of
barn

GV II

Town house, now offices and attached stable and barn. Mid C19
and earlier. Stucco on masonry to front with rusticated
basement openings, channelled rustication and hoodmoulds with
keys to ground floor, moulded string, moulded hoods on
consoles flanking carved friezes to 1st floor and keyed flat
arches to 2nd floor; dry slate roof with moulded eaves on
widely-spaced brackets. Double-depth-plan front range plus
deep wing at right-angles to rear left linked to steps and
stables and ruinous parallel range at rear incorporating a C16
or C17 doorway. 3 storeys over basement, 4-window range.
Original 9-pane hornless sashes to 2nd floor over later C19 or
C20 two-pane horned sashes. Ground floor has 2 windows with
C20 glazing over 2 smaller basement openings all with
segmental arches as has doorway on left; elliptically-arched
granite carriageway on the right. Rear outshut has 3 original
12-pane hornless sashes; older 16-pane sashes to low wing and
3-window taller range on its right; steps adjoining right of
this and 2-storey hipped roofed rubble stable at far right
with central ground-floor doorway and further doorway on its
right. Return range, probably a barn, has central C16 or C17
moulded 4-centred-arched doorway; loading doorway over and
window opening left of doorway. INTERIOR: not inspected but
likely to be of interest.

Listing NGR: SX0701766996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501705

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