Bossington Place Lodge
BOSSINGTON PLACE LODGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173506
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1980
- List Entry Name:
- Bossington Place Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BOSSINGTON PLACE LODGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1173506
- Date first listed:
- 28-Oct-1980
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 02-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Bossington Place Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOSSINGTON PLACE LODGE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BOSSINGTON PLACE LODGE
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:
- SS8898146934
Details
558846 PORLOCK CP DUNSTER STEEP
24/53
Bossington Place Lodge
(formerly listed as New Place
Lodge)
28.10.80
II
-
Lodge to Bossington Place (qv), now private dwelling. Circa 1900. Presumably by Edmund Buckle. Rendered over rubble,
hipped thatched roof, circular roughcast stacks rising from above eaves. Plan: gateway flanked by single rooms with
separate staircases. Picturesque vernacular style. One and a half storeys, 3 bays; hipped thatched dormers in outer
bays with 2-light casements, thatched roof swept down flanking central 3-light casement above square headed gateway
opening, wooden lintel and jambs, hipped thatched hoods to 4-light canted outer bays. Arched studded double doors on
rear elevation, with wicket gate; Tudor arch headed entrances. Because of sloping site north-east corner at rear
supported on single circular column. Illustrated by Chadwyck-Healey, for whom the lodge was built, in his book The
History of the Part of West Somerset, 1901.
Listing NGR: SS8898146934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 265466
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Healey, C, The History of the Part of West Somerset, (1901)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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