Bodior

Bodior is a large, two-storey house with attics, dating to the early 19th century, with a four-window service wing projecting to the left of the front elevation. The house is constructed of rendered rubble masonry, with a roof covered in thin slates, stone copings, and tall, rectangular, rendered axial and gable end stacks with cornices. The main front elevation has a six-window range, with a recessed design. A storeyed porch, with an embattled parapet, is advanced to the left of centre. The windows are predominantly 12-pane sashes, with one transomed and mullioned paired light to the right of the porch. The main entrance is a large, square-headed doorway flanked by round-headed lights set into a square frame. Above the door is a diamond-shaped slate plaque inscribed "HL / HFE / 1848". The upper storey features a small Palladian window, with returns incorporating round-headed and square-headed lights. The service wing has a gabled projection near the centre, featuring a crow-stepped gable, and a blind window at ground floor level, likely replacing a former entrance, with a tablet above reading "1529 / J / OO”. A single window is located in a lean-to extension to the left of the projection. The lower storey of the service wing has two tall, transomed and mullioned paired casements, with the remaining windows as 12-pane sashes. The rear of the main range presents a balanced composition of 2 and 3-light transomed and mullioned casement windows with margin lights, along with French windows to the far right and a single door towards the left end. The attics mirror the front with small gable dormers featuring slate-hung cheeks, plain bargeboards, and small globe finials. A further storeyed wing is set at right angles to the rear service wing, forming an enclosed yard with lean-to extensions on the main block.

The main range's entrance opens into a sitting room containing an early 19th-century staircase. The closed string is decorated with a carved floriate panel and a moulded rail on turned balusters, with recessed panelling below, shielding steps leading down to the basement. A doorway to the right leads to a games room, and another to the left to a further sitting room, music room, main kitchen, and a servants’ kitchen housed in a lean-to extension. Ground floor rooms are fitted with panelled shutters, picture rails, and moulded cornices. Some rooms have moulded plaster ‘kite’ designs on the ceilings. Panelled doors are present throughout, and cast-iron decorative grates are set within enamelled slate or oak panelled surrounds. The service wing contains a former dining room, also with panelled shutters and a kite design on the ceiling, alongside a pantry, larder, and store rooms. Many upper storey and attic bedrooms retain early 19th-century fire surrounds, frequently made of enamelled slate.