Bodidris

Bodidris is a large house, retaining elements from the 17th and 19th centuries, with a tower of three storeys and a two-storey range with an attic, situated alongside each other. The house is constructed of rubble stone with sandstone dressings, covered by a slate roof. Three substantial lateral stone stacks with star-shaped chimneys project from the rear.

The tower block faces south and is dominated by a gabled wing which projects slightly to the right. It features a heraldic finial in the form of a bear with a staff, stone gable coping with shaped kneelers, and restored 19th-century ovolo-moulded mullion and transom windows with returning dripmoulds. A large projecting stack with raking offsets and star-shaped chimneys sits to the left of the gable; a small 3-light mullion and barred window is located to its left at ground floor level. A single-storey extension with a low gabled roof projects to the right, incorporating a 20th-century porch with a simple pediment and pointed-arched doorway, and a three-light mullion window. An adjoining wall includes a late 16th-century pointed arched doorway with moulded jambs, marking the former entrance to a demolished wing. Another gabled wing projects on the west side of the tower, also with a heraldic finial. Carved grotesques project from the upper angles of the tower. The tower’s windows are ovolo-moulded, with a 2-light window on the top floor, 3-light windows below, and a 4-light mullion window on the ground floor. A chimneystack corbelled out with raking offsets and plain cap is located on the north side of the tower, at first-floor level, alongside a single light window. The ground floor features a 20th-century three-light window to the left, and a 17th-century doorway to the right, with a cambered stone lintel and a planked door (originally in two halves, now joined).

The 17th-century range facing west is roughly symmetrical with two gabled dormers flanking the centre, springing above the eaves and featuring stone copings and decorative heraldic finials. While the dormers generally have ovolo mullions and returning dripmoulds, the one to the right has straight dripmoulds. The attic floor has one 4-light window in each dormer; the first floor has one 2-light, three 4-light, and one 3-light windows; and the ground floor has two 4-light and one 5-light windows. A doorway on the ground floor to the right has a chamfered, Tudor-arched head and a 19th-century door with narrow vertical panels. A two-storey lean-to was added to the rear of the house, likely in the late 19th century, featuring 3-light mullion and transom windows with cambered stone voussoired arches.

Inside, opposite the entrance is a staircase winding around an enclosed well, flanked by post-and-panel partition, which appears to be a reused element. To the left, ground-floor rooms of the north wing have stop-chamfered and moulded beams, and stone flagged floors. Fireplace openings are broad, one with a dressed stone surround featuring a three-centred arched head and plain chamfered jambs. To the right of the entrance, a ground-floor room has chamfered beams with straight-cut stops, and an 18th-century style fireplace with a lugged architrave, a bolection moulded frieze, and an enriched overmantel with a pediment flanked by foliate scrolls. The tower block's upper chamber contains a particularly fine heraldic fireplace with a frieze of five shields, along with a collar-and-tie-beam truss with queen posts.