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Bossington Place Lodge

A Grade II Listed Building in Porlock, Somerset

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.2108 / 51°12'38"N

Longitude: -3.5907 / 3°35'26"W

OS Eastings: 288981

OS Northings: 146934

OS Grid: SS889469

Mapcode National: GBR LC.3XW0

Mapcode Global: VH5JW.QT2P

Plus Code: 9C3R6C65+8P

Entry Name: Bossington Place Lodge

Listing Date: 28 October 1980

Last Amended: 2 January 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1173506

English Heritage Legacy ID: 265466

ID on this website: 101173506

Location: Porlock, Somerset, TA24

County: Somerset

District: Somerset West and Taunton

Civil Parish: Porlock

Built-Up Area: Porlock

Traditional County: Somerset

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset

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Description



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

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