Hartnells North West Barrack Block Former Bodmin Depot
HARTNELLS NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375570
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hartnells North West Barrack Block Former Bodmin Depot
- Statutory Address:
- HARTNELLS NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375570
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Hartnells North West Barrack Block Former Bodmin Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- HARTNELLS NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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:
- HARTNELLS NORTH WEST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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 07556 66152
Details
SXO766
BODMIN
629-1/3/10008
ST NICHOLAS STREET
(South West side)
Hartnell's, NW barrack block, former Bodmin depot
GV II
Barrack block, disused. 1881, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE. Squared rubble with dressings, rubble end gable, ridge and rear lateral stacks with shouldered sides, and slate
roof
PLAN: single-depth dormitories either side of central stairs and ablutions.
EXTERIOR: 2 storey; 8:3:8-window range. Symmetrical front, with cill and lintel bands, coped end gables and set forward at centre; central first-floor tripartite window with plate tracery containing a clock and flanking paired lights, with central doorway, and some 6/6-pane sashes. Rear has matching windows with 2 square ablution bays to central section.
INTERIOR: a standard design containing barrack rooms either side of a central stair with iron balustrade, front NCO's room and rear ablution room.
HISTORY: ;in example of a standard barrack design for the Localisation Depots, each dormitory for a company of 26 men. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. One of a pair of matching barracks forming part of one of the two most complete of the surviving depots, with Reading (gv), unusual in being built of stone, and attached to the former Militia armoury (qv).
Listing NGR: SX0755666152
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469534
- 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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