Former St Lawrence's Hospital
FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, A389
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195283
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Lawrence's Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, A389
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1195283
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Former St Lawrence's Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, A389
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, WESTHEATH AVENUE
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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:
- FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, A389
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, WESTHEATH AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodmin
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 05920 66879
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/05/2012
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SX06NE
08/06/72
BODMIN
WESTHEATH AVENUE (A389)
Former St Lawrence's Hospital
(Formerly listed as St Lawrence's Hospital)
GV
II*
Former Hospital. 1818. By John Foulston. Extended c1838 by George
Wightwick and in later C19.
MATERIALS: squared pink stone to front of later entrance wing,
otherwise rubble walls with plinth, mid-floor string and
segmental arches; coursed stone to late C19 additions at ends
of wings; dry slate roof to front wing, otherwise mostly rag
slate: central polygonal roof with central brick stack and
radiating wings with hipped returns at ends and axial brick
stacks; small octagonal roof, presumably for parapet stairs,
fronting the rear wing.
PLAN: large panoptical plan with 6 original deep radial wings
all with later C19 additions at the ends; between the front
wings is a tapered entrance addition with segmental ends to
the front part linked to flanking quadrant walls.
EXTERIOR: original hornless sashes with glazing bars except
for original latticed oriels to central block between wings or
flanking the central block and some later sashes to additions.
Symmetrical 1:3:1-window range entrance block has granite
plinth and stucco pilasters to round-arched ground-floor
openings, moulded architraves to segmental-arched 1st-floor
openings with moulded sills on brackets and moulded eaves
entablature; moulded cast-iron gutters. 3 linked sashes over
tripartite loggia fronting central 4-panel door and spoked
fanlight flanked by sashes with fanlight heads. Some of the
wings have last 3 bays surmounted by a triangular pediment.
Between most of the wings survive the original symmetrical
2-window fronts of the central building, with 1st-floor oriels
and central doorways flanked by wide sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
A notable and relatively unaltered example of an early C19
hospital built on the panoptical plan.
(Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: 1978-: 319; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and
Radcliffe E: Cornwall: 1970-: 43).
Listing NGR: SX0592066879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368051
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 43
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 319
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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