Williams House
WILLIAMS HOUSE, A389
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298218
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Williams House
- Statutory Address:
- WILLIAMS HOUSE, A389
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1298218
- Date first listed:
- 16-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Williams House
- Statutory Address 1:
- WILLIAMS HOUSE, A389
- Statutory Address 2:
- WILLIAMS HOUSE, WESTHEATH AVENUE
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:
- WILLIAMS HOUSE, A389
- Statutory Address:
- WILLIAMS 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 05814 66918
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 01/05/2012
SX06NE
629-1/1/112
16/03/88
BODMIN
WESTHEATH AVENUE (A389)
(North side)
Williams House
(Formerly listed as Williams Building at St Lawrence's Hospital )
GV
II
Former hospital wards. c1845. By George Wightwick. Squared and
coursed polychrome stone with granite plinth, 1st-floor sill
string and monolithic sills, jambs and moulded hoods on
consoles to pavilions and to 1st floor of remainder of front;
dry Delabole slate hipped roofs with granite eaves corbels;
brick axial stacks. Overall double-E plan including central
porch and deep wing behind and the front wings with wider
terminal pavilions originally with lean-to probable loggia in
the angles between the pavilions and the porch. 2 storeys;
symmetrical 1:3:1:3:1-bay front. Original hornless sashes with
glazing bars including tripartite windows to pavilions;
1-window range to each splayed angle flanking the main range
and 2-window inner returns. Central 2-storey porch bay with
triangular pediment and tripartite entrance with 4 Doric
pilasters, segmental-arched doorway with vertical glazed
fanlight and pair of glazed doors flanked by sashes, moulded
entablature and panelled pseudo parapet. Other elevations have
original sashes over hopper lights. INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects
1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890).
Listing NGR: SX0581466918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 368053
- 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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