Bodeilio

Early C17 gentry house. The principal elevation faces a walled garden to the SW, a 2-storey, 3-window range including storeyed porch offset to right; single storey service wing to rear (former dairy). Built of limestone and grit rubble masonry with large quoins. Slate roof with stone coping; gable stacks with capping, tall rendered stack to porch gable has hollow chamfered capping. The porch entrance is an arched doorway which has double roll-moulded jambs and broach stops; the first floor window has a moulded label above which is an inscribed stone which bears the dates 1602 and 1618 and the initials I. O. Windows in flanking bays are modern replacement casements.

The ground plan has been lost owing to the insertion of a later partition, though the staircase occupies its original position; probably consisted of passage with staircase at one end and a room on either side. Cased beams, mortices under the main beam of the kitchen near the N end suggest that this end was shut off as a larder. Massive chamfered bressumers to large inglenook fireplaces in kitchen and sitting room. First floor retains original plan with central hallway and room either side; another over porch (formerly with fireplace in SE corner). Original panels of passage remains; rooms subdivided in C19. Staircase window at half landing, wide-boarded doors, and doors with 6 sunk panels.