HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT

HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375571
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT
Statutory Address:: HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375571
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT
Statutory Address 1:: HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST BARRACK BLOCK FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: HARTNELLS SOUTH EAST 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 07628 66113

Details

SXO766

629-1/3/10009 BODMIN

ST NICHOLAS STREET (South West side)

Hartnell's SE barrack block, former Bodmin depot

GV II

Barrack block. 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 gables to ends and set forward at centre; central first-floor tripartite window with plate tracery and flanking paired lights, with central doorway, and some 6/6-pane sashes. Rear has matching windows with 2 square ablution bays to the central section. INTERIOR: a standard design containing barracks rooms either side of a central stair with iron balustrade, front NCO's room and rear ablution room. HISTORY: an example of a standard barrack design for the Localisation Depots, each dormitory for a company of26 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: SX0762866113

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Legacy System number:: 469535
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.