Clock Tower and Turret House
CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, FORE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206542
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower and Turret House
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, FORE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206542
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jun-1972
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 07-Jan-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Clock Tower and Turret House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, HONEY STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE
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:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, FORE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, HONEY STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CLOCK TOWER AND TURRET HOUSE, MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Bodmin
- National Grid Reference:
- SX0717066986
Details
BODMIN
SX0766 FORE STREET
629-1/3/59 (East side)
08/06/72 Clock Tower and Turret House
(Formerly Listed as:
FORE STREET
Clock Tower)
GV II
Clock tower on street corner with attached house with later
shops. 1845 datestone to clock tower, house of slightly later
date. Granite ashlar clocktower with rusticated quoin
pilasters; later texture on probable stucco on studwork with
sill strings and moulded hoods on consoles to house;
bitumen-grouted slate and slate polygonal roof with moulded
and dentilled eaves; some cast-iron ogee gutters. Polygonal
corner site plan with square-on-plan clock tower. 3 storeys;
2-window range at receding angle left of clock tower; 1-window
range right of clock tower and 3-window range right-hand
return. Ground floor has late C20 shop fronts. Clock tower in
Italianate style, has giant stage with round-arched
vermiculated doorway with iron-studded oak door; plaque
between 2 bands inscribed "J.B. COLLINS, MAYOR" and half-domed
niche; moulded entablature with date in Roman numerals to
frieze, all surmounted by clockface within scrolled pediment
on panelled base surmounted by bellcote with moulded
round-arched openings, panelled corner pilasters rising to
moulded entablature and panelled corner acroteria and central
dome. INTERIOR: not inspected.
Listing NGR: SX0717066986
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368002
- 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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