Sir John Moore House, Former Bodmin Depot
SIR JOHN MOORE HOUSE, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375574
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sir John Moore House, Former Bodmin Depot
- Statutory Address:
- SIR JOHN MOORE HOUSE, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375574
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Sir John Moore House, Former Bodmin Depot
- Statutory Address 1:
- SIR JOHN MOORE HOUSE, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET
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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:
- SIR JOHN MOORE HOUSE, 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 07686 66161
Details
BODMIN
SXO766
629-1/3/10005
ST NICHOLAS STREET (South West side)
Sir John Moore House, former Bodmin depot
GV II
Officers quarters and mess, now offices. 1881, designed at the War Office, by Major H C Seddon RE; converted c:1980. Squared rubble with dressings, stone ridge stacks and slate roof. Double-depth plan.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 10-window range. Near symmetrical front with wide, coped end gables on kneelers, set forward, cill and lintel bands and eaves cornice; central and right-hand entrances have hood moulds to round-arched doorways and double C20 door, the right-and doorway in ;1 gabled porch. Single-storey block beyond the right-hand entrance. 2- and 3-light windows, with square column mullions on the ground floor, 2 gabled half dormer, with late C20 uPVC casements. Rear has wide outer gables and a central square bay with pyramidal roof. INTERIOR: has a central stair hall with dogleg stair with decorative cast-iron baluster, and marble fireplaces.
HISTORY: an example of a standard design for the Localisation depots, containing accommodation for officers and servants, and mess rooms and kitchens. The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. The only example of this design, forming part of one of the two most complete surviving depots, with Reading (gv), unusual in being built of stone, and attached to the former Militia armoury (qv).
Listing NGR: SX0768666161
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469538
- 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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