Description

BODMIN

SX0766 FORE STREET
629-1/3/38 (South side)
08/06/72 Nos.16 AND 18

GV II

Town house. C18. Incised stucco on studwork; steep
bitumen-grouted rag slate roof with moulded eaves cornice; C18
hipped roof dormer with moulded eaves cornice, brick stack on
right, rubble stack on left. L-shaped plan including rear
wing. 3 storeys; 4-window range. Mid/late C19 two-pane
hornless sashes within moulded architraves to 2nd floor; C20
windows to 1st floor. Ground floor has 2 late C20 shop fronts.
Rear right-hand side of wing of No.16 has 1 early C18
eight-pane casement to 2-light window and an early C19 24-pane
hornless sash, otherwise later 4-pane hornless sashes.
INTERIOR: No.16 has wide C18 dogleg closed-string staircase
with column-turned balusters; some C18 plank and muntin
partitions; C18 moulded ceiling cornices to left-hand
chambers; two 2-panel doors; a segmental arch to 1st-floor
passage fronting a closet, original roof structure with pegged
dovetail-jointed collars. Rear wing has late C19 scissor-truss
roof structure.

Listing NGR: SX0709866996

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26501662

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Recommended Books

• 
  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey