Description

BODMIN

SX0766 FORE STREET
629-1/3/33 (South side)
08/06/72 No.2

GV II

Corner site terrace with large shop, probably 2 houses
originally. Mid C19. Stucco on studwork with moulded
architraves, sill brackets and moulded hoods on consoles;
bitumen-grouted polygonal slate roof with moulded eaves over
wide-spaced brackets; late C19 gabled dormer on the left;
brick stack on the right; cast-iron ogee gutter. Double-depth
plan with canted front. 2 storeys and 3 storeys;
1:2:2:1:2-bays overall. 8-window-range front. Possibly
original 2-pane hornless sashes and some later horned sashes;
wider windows to left-hand bay: tripartite sash over later
transomed window. Pilastered doorway with moulded hood on
consoles to 2nd bay fronting 5 granite steps up to C20 glazed
door and overlight. Ground floor of 3-storey 4-bay part on
right has 7-bay shop front with Ionic columns dividing the
bays; end pilaster on left, column to far right with doorway
on its left; C20 glazed door and C20 plate-glass shop windows.
INTERIOR: many original features including some moulded
ceiling cornices and dogleg stair with closed string and
column-over-vase turned balusters; at least one C19
chimneypiece, 2 iron grates and queen-post roof structures.
The Greek Revival shopfront is a notable example of its type.

Listing NGR: SX0715566977

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26489850

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Recommended Books

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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)