Listed Building: BOSSINGTON PLACE LODGE (1173506)

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: SS8898146930