Description

1. BODORGAN ROAD
5186 (East Side)
No 23 (St Cross)
(Formerly listed as
No 24)
SZ 0891 13/148 1.8.74.

II

2.
Picturesque mansion, tile-hanging and half-timber, dated on foundation stone 3l
May 1883. Entrance at short west end: moulded brick arch under wooden canopy
on brackets under part of projecting hipped-roofed gable, with large dormer corbelled
out on decorated plaster projection. Incised plaster coving to dormer and eaves.
Polygonal bay with open loggia at 2nd floor level (bulgy Gothic balusters), surmounted
by spire, set across south-west corner. Long south front to garden: canted bay
with 2nd floor loggia under half-timbered gable with foliage frieze, then loggia
to garden entrance and canted bay to ground floor, with 1st floor balcony over,
then another canted bay under half-timbered gable. East and north side with service
rooms (one corbelled oriel with incised coved cornice). Roofs of tile with ornamental
ridges. Chimneystacks with vertical ribs, projecting cornices and some original
pots.

Listing NGR: SZ0870991825

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26610318

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Recommended Books

• 
  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)