Former Bodmin Depot Hospital
Neon Nightclub, Victoria Square, Castle Canyke Road, Bodmin, PL31 1EB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375575
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bodmin Depot Hospital
- Statutory Address:
- Neon Nightclub, Victoria Square, Castle Canyke Road, Bodmin, PL31 1EB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1375575
- Date first listed:
- 08-Jul-1998
- List Entry Name:
- Former Bodmin Depot Hospital
- Statutory Address 1:
- Neon Nightclub, Victoria Square, Castle Canyke Road, Bodmin, PL31 1EB
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
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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:
- Neon Nightclub, Victoria Square, Castle Canyke Road, Bodmin, PL31 1EB
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 07756 66115
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 29 September 2025 to amend the name, address and description due to a change in building use and reformat the text to current standards
SXO766
629-1/3/10006
BODMIN
CASTLE CANYKE ROAD
VICTORIA SQUARE
Neon Nightclub
Former Bodmin Depot Hospital
(Formerly listed as The Drum Major, former Bodmin depot, ST NICHOLAS STREET)
GV
II
Hospital on barracks; public house at time of listing. 1881, designed at the War Office by Major HC Seddon RE. Squared rubble with dressings, stone ridge and lateral side stacks with cornice, and slate roof
PLAN: double-depth administration and surgery range, with a single pavilion plan ward wing to south end.
EXTERIOR: two storeys and basement; 3:3-window range. Administration block has a symmetrical front with twin coped gables on moulded kneelers, ashlar cill and lintel bands and eaves cornice, and plain surrounds; central gabled porch with round-arched doorway and 4/4-pane sashes to the sides, two-light square mullions and transoms with 4/4-pane sashes, and central first-floor tripartite window. Similar ward block has tall windows with transoms, the end gable has a central tripartite window, with rear corner sanitary annexe with parapet and narrow transom windows.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORY: an example of a standard hospital design for the Localisation depots; a comparable example exists at Brock barracks, Reading (qv). The corner annexe was a characteristic feature of the pavilion plan hospitals.
The Cardwell reforms redistributed barracks around the country to encourage local connections and assist recruitment. It forms part of one of the two most complete surviving depots, with Reading (qv), unusual in being built of stone, and attached to the former Militia armoury (qv).
Listing NGR: SX0775666115
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469539
- 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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