Description

BODMIN

SX0667 CHAPEL LANE
629-1/2/23 (North West side)
26/03/49 Nos.2 AND 3
Coomberry (2) and St Anthony (3)

II

Detached house, now 2 houses, at one time used as a school.
Early C19, extended mid C19. Incised stucco on rubble; some
slatehanging to wing on right; rag slate and asbestos slate
hipped roof to rear wing (No. 2); end stacks. Overall
irregular L-shaped plan.
2 storeys (plus basement to wing on right of No.3);
symmetrical 3-window front plus 2-window-range wing set back
on the right. C20 twelve-pane horned sashes; C20 door;
overlight. Wing has 2 original hornless sashes with glazing
bars, a latticed cellar window and an old ledged door. Rear
has original round-arched stair sash with fanlight head.
Left-hand return includes the 3-window front of No.2 which has
original 12-pane hornless sashes and 1 larger late C19 window
all within moulded architraves with hoods and sill brackets.
Original but resited porch with reeded columns on granite
plinths and moulded entablature.
INTERIOR: original open-well open-string staircase; with
reeded stick balusters and wreathed handrail, panelled doors,
window shutters and some panelled reveals. Moulded ceiling
cornices and 1 ceiling (No.2) with anthemion band, probably
mid C19, also a marble chimneypiece with consoles.
HISTORY: there was a schoolroom at Coomberry prior to 1850 and
from 1850-1920 there was a dame school at St Anthony.
(Long L E: An Old Cornish Town: Bodmin: 1975-: 53).

Listing NGR: SX0693667098

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501555

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