Bodmin Town Museum

Bodmin Town Museum is a public building constructed in 1891 by Ralling and Tonar of Exeter. It features squared polychrome local stone, some rock-faced, with freestone and granite dressings, including mullioned windows, surrounds, string courses, and copings. The building has steep dry slate roofs with coped gable ends and parapets, as well as gable and lateral stone stacks.

The plan is irregular and rectangular, designed in a Free Gothic style. The exterior is two storeys high, with a bay arrangement of 1:5:1 on the east front. It includes transomed mullioned windows, with the left-hand and central bays having a principal floor above six bays of round arches that contain three round-arched lights. A gable-ended cross wing on the left features a canted first-floor oriel with a moulded base. The five central bays have three-light double transomed windows with segmental heads and round-arched lights. The right gable end has two slit gable ventilators above a rose window, which is situated over a string course with a central figure. Below this is a central pointed-arched opening with a traceried tympanum on a central shaft and a canted balustrade on a moulded base, flanked by a pair of round-arched blind niches and four-centred arched doorways with nook shafts and blind tympana above panelled doors. The gables are adorned with octagonal corbelled corner finials.

The symmetrical south front has four windows with two-light mullioned windows featuring round-arched lights, and a central round-arched doorway with nook shafts and pinnacled buttresses. The interior retains most of its original features where inspected, showcasing a striking design that is reminiscent of Northern Renaissance town halls.