Barn Park

BODMIN

SX0766 LAUNCESTON ROAD 629-1/3/75 (South East side) Barn Park

GV II

Small country house. Early/mid C19, on an older site, slightly remodelled mid/late C19. MATERIALS: incised stucco on rubble with granite ashlar plinth; rag slate hipped roofs with projecting eaves on shaped wooden brackets; stuccoed end stacks and 1 surviving lateral stack to left of entrance front. PLAN: L-shaped plan with 2-room-plan garden front, kitchen/living room on left of entrance front, large entrance/stair hall between lean-to study behind stair hall and pantry at far left of entrance front with service stair behind. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys plus attics; 2-window-range entrance front. 3 original hornless sashes with glazing bars and 1 horned copy to ground floor left, all windows under shallow segmental arches and left-of-central round-arched doorway with 2-spoked fanlight and glazed and panelled door with flush bottom panels; later C19 lean-to glazed porch with fairly small panes and original glazed door to its right-hand return; cast-iron door high up on right. 1:2-bay garden front with left-hand bay broken forward; paired round-arched 2-pane horned sashes on left, otherwise segmental arches over 4-pane horned sashes; C20 conservatory on the right. Rear has original hornless sashes with glazing bars and round-arched horned stair sash. In the angle is a narrow hipped roof over small chamber with single-storey lean-to on its right; 2 raking roof dormers with original 6-pane hornless sashes. INTERIOR: virtually unaltered since the early/mid C19: open-well staircase with open string, scrolled brackets, stick balusters and handrail scrolled over newels; moulded plaster ceiling cornices to entrance hall and reception rooms; panelled shutters and reveals; some mid C19 chimneypieces with iron grates; slate floor to pantry and steep service staircase. Barn Park stands in a mature garden and is part of a planned group of structures including garden wall, shippon and well house, barn with carriage houses and gate piers and screen walls.

Listing NGR: SX0798166781