16 And 18, Fore Street

This is a town house, dating from the 18th century, situated on Fore Street in Bodmin. The front is finished with incised stucco over a timber frame, and has a steep, bitumen-grouted rag slate roof with a moulded eaves cornice. An 18th-century hipped roof dormer has a moulded eaves cornice, with a brick chimney stack on the right and a rubble chimney stack on the left. The building has an L-shaped plan, including a rear wing. It is three storeys high, with a four-window front. Windows on the second floor are mid-to-late 19th-century two-pane hornless sashes within moulded architraves. The first floor has 20th-century windows, while the ground floor now contains two late 20th-century shop fronts.

The rear right-hand side of the wing of number 16 has an early 18th-century eight-pane casement to a two-light window and an early 19th-century 24-pane hornless sash. The remaining windows to the rear are later four-pane hornless sashes.

Inside number 16, there is a wide 18th-century dogleg closed-string staircase with column-turned balusters. There are also some original 18th-century plank and muntin partitions, moulded ceiling cornices in the left-hand chambers, two six-panel doors, a segmental arch to a first floor passage fronting a closet, and the original roof structure with pegged dovetail-jointed collars. The rear wing has a late 19th-century scissor-truss roof structure.