Williams House

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SX06NE 629-1/1/112 16/03/88

BODMIN WESTHEATH AVENUE (A389) (North side) Williams House

(Formerly listed as Williams Building at St Lawrence's Hospital )

GV II

Former hospital wards. c1845. By George Wightwick. Squared and coursed polychrome stone with granite plinth, 1st-floor sill string and monolithic sills, jambs and moulded hoods on consoles to pavilions and to 1st floor of remainder of front; dry Delabole slate hipped roofs with granite eaves corbels; brick axial stacks. Overall double-E plan including central porch and deep wing behind and the front wings with wider terminal pavilions originally with lean-to probable loggia in the angles between the pavilions and the porch. 2 storeys; symmetrical 1:3:1:3:1-bay front. Original hornless sashes with glazing bars including tripartite windows to pavilions; 1-window range to each splayed angle flanking the main range and 2-window inner returns. Central 2-storey porch bay with triangular pediment and tripartite entrance with 4 Doric pilasters, segmental-arched doorway with vertical glazed fanlight and pair of glazed doors flanked by sashes, moulded entablature and panelled pseudo parapet. Other elevations have original sashes over hopper lights. INTERIOR: not inspected. (Colvin H: A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840: London: 1978-: 890).

Listing NGR: SX0581466918