The jail's grey stone façade at dusk under a coral sky, its windows lit, a dark glass tower between its wings and an old stone tower behind.

The Bodmin Jail Hotel

Concept, Hotel

What: a hotel inside the former Bodmin Jail
The jail: built in 1779
Rooms: 70 bedrooms
Industry: Hotel
Year: 2026
Made: A concept we designed for The Bodmin Jail Hotel

A concept we designed for The Bodmin Jail Hotel, a restored 18th-century prison.

The site is set in tall stencilled capitals over the jail's grey stone, its rooms, its chapel and its door each opening in a frame of its own, from the atrium down.

The header alone on granite: the lockup at the left, then Story, Rooms, Dining and Visit, and Book a stay in yellow. — The header of a concept we designed for The Bodmin Jail Hotel: the lockup, the parts of the page and Book a stay.

The first screen's name, THE BODMIN JAIL HOTEL, in tall white stencilled capitals between vertical bars, over the atrium in grey. — The first screen's name, between the bars, over the atrium.

Book a stay in dark letters on a yellow button, a thin rule at each side. — Book a stay, in the door's yellow.

SAME WALLS. NEW LIGHT. in white stencilled capitals on granite, a small line of capitals above it. — The story's line, white on granite.

The room types in a row of panels on linen: King or twin in emerald, then Family and Accessible, each with who it sleeps. — The rooms, each kind in a panel of its own.

A table laid for dinner before a tall window of stone tracery, flowers on it, in the pointed frame of a lancet. — Dinner in the old chapel, as a concept we designed for The Bodmin Jail Hotel frames it.

A room in narrow panels on linen: a white bed against an emerald velvet headboard under a vaulted stone ceiling, a bench, a window high in the wall. — A room made from the cells, in panels.

The hotel's entrance at night: a glass doorway under a dark canopy, set into uplit stone walls. — The door, lit at night.

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door #E5B43C

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Thick walls, soft linen.

The rooms section sets its line over kinds of room in tabs, the chosen one in green.

The rooms section with the family tab chosen. — The family room, in its tab.

The cells section on the display: photographs of a room made from former cells. — Cells joined into one room, in photographs.

The door is open.

Booking sits beside a photograph of the door, its date picker opening over the page.

The date picker open over the booking section on the display. — The date picker, open.

The visit section on the display: Getting here over the hotel at dusk. — Getting here, over the hotel at dusk.

The Bodmin Jail Hotel's page scrolling on the display from its first screen to its address: the atrium, the story, the rooms, the dining, then getting here.

The page end to end on the big screen: the atrium, the story, the rooms, the chapel dining, then Getting here.

The site on the display from its first screen, the bars opening onto the atrium, into the story: the corridor as it was, drawn, then today under its glass roof.

The same page on an iPhone 18 Pro: the bars opening, the story, then the cells becoming a room.

A concept we designed for The Bodmin Jail Hotel, on the big screen and on a phone: the bars opening onto the atrium, then the corridor as it was, drawn, and as it is today.

The Bodmin Jail Hotel keeps the jail’s walls and lets new light in. We wanted our concept to hold both: stencilled capitals on grey stone, soft linen behind thick walls.

Leo LargilletFounder & CEO, alambic.studio

About the project

The film

The head of the site

The place

The colours

Thick walls, soft linen.

The door is open.

The page end to end on a big screen

The site on a big screen and a phone

From the team

One plan, everything included