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Latitude: 50.4637 / 50°27'49"N
Longitude: -4.711 / 4°42'39"W
OS Eastings: 207686
OS Northings: 66161
OS Grid: SX076661
Mapcode National: GBR N3.N1QT
Mapcode Global: FRA 170T.Y6J
Plus Code: 9C2QF77Q+FH
Entry Name: Sir John Moore House, Former Bodmin Depot
Listing Date: 8 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375574
English Heritage Legacy ID: 469538
ID on this website: 101375574
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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
BODMIN
SXO766
629-1/3/10005
ST NICHOLAS STREET (South West side)
Sir John Moore House, former Bodmin depot
GV II
Officers quarters and mess, now offices. 1881, designed at the War Office, by Major H C Seddon RE; converted c:1980. Squared rubble with dressings, stone ridge stacks and slate roof. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 10-window range. Near symmetrical front with wide, coped end gables on kneelers, set forward, cill and lintel bands and eaves cornice; central and right-hand entrances have hood moulds to round-arched doorways and double C20 door, the right-and doorway in ;1 gabled porch. Single-storey block beyond the right-hand entrance. 2- and 3-light windows, with square column mullions on the ground floor, 2 gabled half dormer, with late C20 uPVC casements. Rear has wide outer gables and a central square bay with pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: has a central stair hall with dogleg stair with decorative cast-iron baluster, and marble fireplaces.
HISTORY: an example of a standard design for the Localisation depots, containing accommodation for officers and servants, and mess rooms and kitchens. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. The only example of this design, forming part of one of the two most complete surviving depots, with Reading (gv), unusual in being built of stone, and attached to the former Militia armoury (qv).
Listing NGR: SX0768666161
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