THE DRUM MAJOR, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT

THE DRUM MAJOR, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375575
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: THE DRUM MAJOR, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT
Statutory Address:: THE DRUM MAJOR, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT, ST NICHOLAS STREET

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Date:: 2005-01-16
Reference:: IOE01/13786/08
Rights:: © Mr Brian French. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1375575
Date first listed:: 08-Jul-1998
List Entry Name:: THE DRUM MAJOR, FORMER BODMIN DEPOT
Statutory Address 1:: THE DRUM MAJOR, 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:: THE DRUM MAJOR, 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 07756 66115

Details

SXO766 BODMIN

629-1/3/10006

GV ST NICHOLAS STREET (South West side)

The Drum Major, former Bodmin depot

II

Hospital on barracks; now public house. 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 S end. EXTERIOR: 2 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, 2-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 (gv). 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 (gv), unusual in being built of stone, and attached to the former Militia armoury (qv).

Listing NGR: SX0775666115

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Legacy System number:: 469539
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.