Boddington Manor

BODDINGTON BODDINGTON VILLAGE SO 82 NE 3/5 Boddington Manor 14.11.79 GV II Former manor house, now offices. Probably C17, largely rebuilt early-mid C19, altered late C19, 1901. Red brick (C17), ashlar stone, late C19 brick; stone slate roof. 'L'-plan with wings. Entrance wing 2 storeys, 2 rooms deep, 4 windows to courtyard; other wing 4 windows, one room deep, 3 storeys but same eaves level. Entrance front: plinth, stone mullion and transom windows, arched heads to lights, hoodmoulds. Left return, single- storey rectangular bay, 4-light window, string course, plain parapet, 2-light window above, crow-stepped gable with stone finial. Flat-roofed section slightly set back on right: 3-light window ground floor, single-light with arched head above, corbelled course, crenellated parapet. Main face: single-storey porch on left, open, moulded arch, hoodmould, square projections each corner with angles chamfered, rising above roof, with stepped centre piece, containing quatrefoils, centre crest. To right 3-light window, hoodmould extended as string course. Above three 3-light windows, parapet to flat roof as left return: single and grouped octagonal chimneys, moulded caps. To right slight projection for tower, string course at first floor, 3-light window above, string course, third stage plain, corbelled course, crenellated parapet: turret rising from left corner with cruciform slit, parapet as main below. Right wing plinth, four 3-light mullioned windows, each light with arched head, hoodmould, to ground and first floors, four 2-light mullioned windows to second: central chimney on ridge, 3 octagonal flues with moulded cap. Right return plinth, projecting central chimney, stone offsets first floor, corbelled out again at eaves level, 3 octagonal flues as before. To right 2-light mullioned window on ground floor, slit to left on first, paired oval quatrefoils to right; single oval quatrefoil each side second floor, crow-stepped gable. C17, or earlier, 'L' plan house, stair turret in angle, 2-storey porch on left: in C19 left wing doubled in depth, tower raised, oval windows to top floor of right wing altered to 2-light mullioned, chimneys rebuilt. Ballroom added 1901. Verey records early C18 fireplace with Ionic columns. Entrance hall 2 storey in 1971, with Jacobean-style strapwork forming stair balustrade. Interior and grounds not accessible, description from road and sale catalogue. (Photograph of c1820 painting; D. Verey, Gloucestershire, the Vale and the Forest of Dean, 1970; V.C.H., Gloucestershire, Vol VIII, 1968; Sale catalogue, 1971)

Listing NGR: SO8952325650