Proposals include the conversion and restoration of existing vacant buildings at Bodmin Jail into a 63-bedroom hotel.

Former cell blocks at the jail would house the hotel accommodation and a new two-storey building would also be constructed. 

A car park for the hotel would be created in the former prison yard.

Bodmin Jail was built in 1779 and operated until 1927, hosting 50 public hangings in that time. In more recent times the jail has become a popular tourist attraction and has been used to film episodes of the BBC series ‘Poldark’.

If the hotel project does go ahead it will not be the first jail to be converted into a hotel. The 95-bedroom Malmaison Oxford is on the site of the former Oxford Jail.

An application has been submitted to Cornwall Council for the alteration, extension and change of use of the Grade II-listed Bodmin Jail.

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