FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL

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:: FORMER ST LAWRENCE'S HOSPITAL, A389

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Official list entry

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

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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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

629-1/1/110 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

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Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 319
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, (1970), 43

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.