Boldre Grange

Boldre Grange is a small country house built between 1872 and 1874 by architect RN Shaw. It was divided into two parts in the mid-20th century. The house is constructed of brick in English bond with stone dressings, featuring some tile hanging on the first floor, half-timber gables, moulded brick stacks, and a plain tile roof.

The building has an asymmetrical design in the Domestic Revival style, consisting of a two-storey main block with four sections, a projecting two-and-a-half storey porch wing, a long service range of one-and-a-half storeys at one end, and a large single-storey Billiard Room projecting in front of the end bay at the other.

The entrance front features a centrally located projecting porch wing with a pointed four-order doorway and a small two-light mullioned window. Above, there is a large canted oriel window with four lights on the front, along with a mullioned and transomed window, and a covered cornice leading to the gable, which has a four-light attic window. To the left, there is a projecting low corridor with a pair of five-light mullioned and transomed windows beneath a hipped roof, and above, tile hanging with a pair of thin five-light mullioned windows under the eaves.

In front of the left bay is a large single-storey rectangular Billiard Room, which has no window on the front and features a parapet. Behind it, the first floor is tile-hung with a four-light mullioned and transomed window under the gable. To the right of the porch is a thin bay of two-and-a-half storeys with a two-light window on each floor, followed by a one-and-a-half storey service quarters with a five-window range and a gabled bay near the centre.

There are large external stacks at the left end, a ridge stack to the left of the porch wing, and a corbelled first-floor stack on the right side of this wing, along with ridge stacks on the service wing. The garden front and interior of the house are largely complete. The house is divided with the service range and main rooms located behind the porch as one part, and the porch wing and the rest of the main house as the other.