Coomberry St Anthony

BODMIN

SX0667 CHAPEL LANE 629-1/2/23 (North West side) 26/03/49 Nos.2 AND 3 Coomberry (2) and St Anthony (3)

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Detached house, now 2 houses, at one time used as a school. Early C19, extended mid C19. Incised stucco on rubble; some slatehanging to wing on right; rag slate and asbestos slate hipped roof to rear wing (No. 2); end stacks. Overall irregular L-shaped plan. 2 storeys (plus basement to wing on right of No.3); symmetrical 3-window front plus 2-window-range wing set back on the right. C20 twelve-pane horned sashes; C20 door; overlight. Wing has 2 original hornless sashes with glazing bars, a latticed cellar window and an old ledged door. Rear has original round-arched stair sash with fanlight head. Left-hand return includes the 3-window front of No.2 which has original 12-pane hornless sashes and 1 larger late C19 window all within moulded architraves with hoods and sill brackets. Original but resited porch with reeded columns on granite plinths and moulded entablature. INTERIOR: original open-well open-string staircase; with reeded stick balusters and wreathed handrail, panelled doors, window shutters and some panelled reveals. Moulded ceiling cornices and 1 ceiling (No.2) with anthemion band, probably mid C19, also a marble chimneypiece with consoles. HISTORY: there was a schoolroom at Coomberry prior to 1850 and from 1850-1920 there was a dame school at St Anthony. (Long L E: An Old Cornish Town: Bodmin: 1975-: 53).

Listing NGR: SX0693667098