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Hartnells North West Barrack Block Former Bodmin Depot

A Grade II Listed Building in Bodmin, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.4636 / 50°27'48"N

Longitude: -4.7129 / 4°42'46"W

OS Eastings: 207556

OS Northings: 66152

OS Grid: SX075661

Mapcode National: GBR N3.N18L

Mapcode Global: FRA 170T.XCQ

Plus Code: 9C2QF77P+CV

Entry Name: Hartnells North West Barrack Block Former Bodmin Depot

Listing Date: 8 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1375570

English Heritage Legacy ID: 469534

ID on this website: 101375570

Location: Bodmin, Cornwall, PL31

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Bodmin

Built-Up Area: Bodmin

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Bodmin

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SXO766

BODMIN

629-1/3/10008

ST NICHOLAS STREET
(South West side)

Hartnell's, NW barrack block, former Bodmin depot

GV II

Barrack block, disused. 1881, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE. Squared rubble with dressings, rubble end gable, ridge and rear lateral stacks with shouldered sides, and slate
roof
PLAN: single-depth dormitories either side of central stairs and ablutions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 8:3:8-window range. Symmetrical front, with cill and lintel bands, coped end gables and set forward at centre; central first-floor tripartite window with plate tracery containing a clock and flanking paired lights, with central doorway, and some 6/6-pane sashes. Rear has matching windows with 2 square ablution bays to central section.
INTERIOR: a standard design containing barrack rooms either side of a central stair with iron balustrade, front NCO's room and rear ablution room.
HISTORY: ;in example of a standard barrack design for the Localisation Depots, each dormitory for a company of 26 men. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. One of a pair of matching barracks forming part of one of the two most complete of the surviving depots, with Reading (gv), unusual in being built of stone, and attached to the former Militia armoury (qv).


Listing NGR: SX0755666152

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