BOSSINGTON PLACE

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058045
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1980
List Entry Name:: BOSSINGTON PLACE
Statutory Address:: BOSSINGTON PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058045
Date first listed:: 28-Oct-1980
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: BOSSINGTON PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: BOSSINGTON PLACE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: BOSSINGTON PLACE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Porlock
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 89023 47035

Details

SS8947 PORLOCK CP DUNSTER STEEP 22/52 Bossington Place (formerly listed as New Place) 28.10.80

- II Country house, now hotel. 1890-2, extended 1922. By Edmund Buckle for Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, enlarged by Michael Waterhouse, Sandstone rubble, Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, coped verges, large round stacks to left of entrance and a battered pair on right return flanking gable. E-plan. Elizabethan style. Two and a half and two storeys, gable fronted wings flanking full height gabled porch, 5 bays, 3-light attic window in wings, 12-light mullioned and transomed hall window with graduated lights to left of gable fronted porch, 6-light mullioned and transomed window, wall raked at to string course, coat of arms below moulded Tudor arch doorway, ribbed door, 3-light vertical light set in angle, right 3-light window above 6-light mullioned and transomed window. Interior contains polygonal plan galley with strapwork balustrade and ribbed plaster ceilings in hall, leatherwork frieze in dining room, and sitting room with heavy cross- beamed ceiling and patterned plaster ceiling. The punning rebus on the architect's name, a buckle is carved into the side of the porch on the north face. Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey was Chancellor of the Diocess of Bath and Wells, Salisbury and Exeter and author of The History of the Part of West Somerset, 1901.

Listing NGR: SS8902347035

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 265465
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.