8, Fore Street

BODMIN

SX0766 FORE STREET 629-1/3/35 (South side) 08/06/72 No.8 (Formerly Listed as: FORE STREET (South side) No.8 Brewer & Son)

GV II

Town house with later shop. C17, later remodelled. Incised stucco on timber frame jettied to 2nd floor; asbestos slate roof. Double-depth plan including rear extension. 3 storeys; 2-window range. Early/mid C19 hornless sashes: early/mid C19 twelve-pane sashes within moulded architraves to 2nd floor; C18 tripartite sashes to 1st floor with thick glazing bars of centre lights removed. Ground floor has late C19 or early C20 full-width transomed double shop front with dressed granite stall risers, moulded sills, end pilasters and moulded entablature with fascia; shallow splayed central doorway with glazed and panelled door. Set into ope wall is a carved medieval fragment probably from the former friary. INTERIOR: ground and 1st floors altered late C20. 2nd floor has three C18 two-panel doors, 1 with bolection moulding, and a c1800 winder stair. Roof structure not inspected but said to be C20 replacing original structure with pegged trusses and evidence for having been thatched originally.

Listing NGR: SX0712566990