Townsend House
TOWNSEND HOUSE, A389
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195284
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend House
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, A389
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195284
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Townsend House
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, A389
- Statutory Address 2:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, WESTHEATH AVENUE
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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:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, A389
- Statutory Address:
- TOWNSEND HOUSE, 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 05963 66849
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/05/2012
629-1/1/111
16-MAR-88
BODMIN
WESTHEATH AVENUE (North side)TOWNSEND HOUSE
A389(North side)Townsend House(Formerly listed as Townsend House at St Lawrence's Hospital)
GII
Former hospital manager's house built in 1838 and designed by George Wightwick.In 1898 porch and rear extension added for the Asylum Board by Silvanus Trevail.Two storeyed coursed and squared polychrome stone building with granite plinth,sills and mid-floor string;shallow freestone segmental arches;rag slate hipped roof with projecting eaves on brackets,two brick axial stacks.Double-depth L-shaped plan with a regular three-window front.Original twelve-pane hornless sashes.Central doorway with C20 glazed and panelled door within late C19 flat-roofed glazed transomed porch with moulded cornice and moulded corners and frames;later lean-to conservatory on its right.Far right is wide doorway with pair of cast-iron latticed doors.Right-hand return(facing road)has brick four-centred arched doorway with framed and planked door on left and an original sash over late C19 canted bay window with horned sashes within moulded architraves.Left-hand return has original first floor sash and four-panel door.Rear has original sashes and a four-panel door.INTERIOR:not inspected except to note open-string staircase with stick balusters and mahogany handrail scrolled over newel,moulded ceiling cornice to entrance hall and slatted shelves on turned legs in porch.CRO AD396/557/131
Listing NGR: SX0596466853
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368052
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 890
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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