Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26310193

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Recommended Books

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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (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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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings