Priory House
PRIORY HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195281
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Priory House
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195281
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Priory House
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIORY HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- PRIORY HOUSE, PRIORY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodmin
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0738866955
Details
BODMIN
SX0666 PRIORY ROAD
629-1/3/103 (South side)
26/03/49 Priory House
GV II
Country house now offices. Rebuilt 1766-1772, slightly
remodelled and extended mid C19. Local rubble with some
granite quoins and granite sills. Double-depth plan,
originally with 2 single-storey wings, the left-hand wing
heightened when house extended mid C19. 3 storeys; symmetrical
5-window front plus flanking 1-window bays with round-arched
recessed panels. Original 12-pane hornless sashes. Central
doorway with original traceried fanlight over glazed and
panelled door; Tuscan porch. Rear has most of its original
sashes. Left of the house is an excavated area of the old
priory. INTERIOR: open-well staircase with closed string,
column-over-vase turned balusters and ramped mahogany handrail
scrolled over newel; some panelled doors and window shutters
with fielded panels; some moulded ceiling cornices including
ceiling with dentils to 1st floor right; some panelled
reveals; moulded arch between entrance and stair hall on
panelled pilasters and at least 2 chimneypieces with eared
architraves. Probably mid C19: panelling and moulded
architraves to right-hand wing. Dated from engraving of house.
Listing NGR: SX0738866955
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368044
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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