St Cross is a Grade II listed building in the Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 August 1974. Mansion. 2 related planning applications.
St Cross
- WRENN ID
- strange-chalk-juniper
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole
- Constituency
- Bournemouth West MP: Jessica Toale (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 August 1974
- Type
- Mansion
- Address
- St Cross, 23, Bodorgan Road
- OS grid reference
- SZ 087 918
- Coordinates
- 50.72597, -1.87797
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 23 (St Cross) is a picturesque mansion located on Bodorgan Road, built in 1883 as indicated on the foundation stone. The entrance is situated at the short west end, featuring a moulded brick arch beneath a wooden canopy supported by brackets, which is part of a projecting hipped-roofed gable. This gable includes a large dormer that is corbelled out, adorned with decorated plaster projections and incised plaster coving along the dormer and eaves.
At the southwest corner, there is a polygonal bay with an open loggia on the second floor, featuring bulgy Gothic balusters and topped with a spire. The long south front faces the garden and includes a canted bay with a second-floor loggia beneath a half-timbered gable that has a foliage frieze. This is followed by a loggia leading to the garden entrance and another canted bay on the ground floor, with a balcony above on the first floor, and yet another canted bay under a half-timbered gable.
The east and north sides contain service rooms, including one corbelled oriel with an incised coved cornice. The roofs are tiled with ornamental ridges, and the chimneystacks feature vertical ribs, projecting cornices, and some original pots.
Local climate
St Cross receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 7 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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