Shire House
SHIRE HOUSE, MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1298216
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Shire House
- Statutory Address:
- SHIRE HOUSE, MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1298216
- Date first listed:
- 26-Mar-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Shire House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHIRE 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:
- SHIRE 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:
- SX0720366911
Details
BODMIN
SX0766 MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE
629-1/0/93 (East side)
26/03/49 Shire House
(Formerly Listed as:
MOUNT FOLLY SQUARE
Mayoralty House)
GV II*
Judges' lodgings. c1840. By Joseph Pascoe of Bodmin.
MATERIALS: rusticated granite ashlar on plinth to ground
floor; stucco above with giant Tuscan pilasters; paired
pilasters clasping the corners and pilasters flanking the
central bays; stepped eaves entablature; rag slate hipped roof
with deep projecting eaves on widely-spaced brackets; brick
end and axial stacks with louvered clay pots.
PLAN: large square plan with central stair hall. Classical
style.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement; 2 nearly identical
symmetrical 5-window fronts facing west and north, both with
central doorways. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars
throughout, those to upper floors with margin panes; very tall
1st-floor windows. West front has C20 glazed porch standing on
original moulded granite steps; tripartite inner doorway with
original segmental-arched fanlight. North front has original
overlight with margin panes over C20 door approached by C20
ramp on the right. East front is 3 bays and similarly
detailed; large C20 ground-floor extension.
INTERIOR: moulded plaster ceiling cornices to the principal
rooms and stair hall (some to ground floor concealed by false
ceilings) some with central roses with acanthus leaves;
open-well staircase with open string, Vitruvian scroll detail
and mahogany handrail scrolled over newel, service stair with
ramped handrail; panelled doors and window shutters and at
least 2 chimneypieces.
An elegant and complete example, which forms a group with
Shire Hall (qv).
(Colvin H: A Bibliographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: London: 1978-: 622).
Listing NGR: SX0720366911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368034
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978), 622
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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