Description

BODMIN

SX0767 CASTLE STREET
629-1/2/20 (East side)
08/06/72 Windsor House

GV II

Detached town house, now flats. Mid C18. Coursed rubble walls
with flat arches with projecting keyblocks; rag slate roof,
hipped to garden front with moulded wooden eaves cornice; 2
hipped roof dormers with late C19 6-pane horned sashes; brick
stack on left and axial stack over rear wall of front room on
the right. L-shaped plan with small porch in the rear
left-hand angle. 2 storeys plus attic over basement;
symmetrical 3-window road front; symmetrical 4-window garden
front (right-hand return) and 3-window range to left-hand
return. Most windows are original or early C19 twelve-pane
hornless sashes; panelled doors; the garden-front door with
margin glazing to top; porch with moulded entablature with
modillions and fishscale slates to its roof. INTERIOR:
(partial inspection) many original features including
open-well closed-string staircase with column-over-vase turned
balusters, ramped mahogany handrail and paired turned newels
with pendants; elliptical arch to hall; a china niche, some
moulded ceiling cornices and a grate to rear chamber. HISTORY:
in 1841 John Wallis Coom had a school at Windsor House known
as The Windsor House Academy.
(Long L E: An Old Cornish Town: Bodmin: 1975-: 48).

Listing NGR: SX0736967118

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26585722

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Recommended Books

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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (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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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)