MSO10716 - Lower House, Bossington (Building)

Cottage with attached farmbuildings, now one dwelling. C16-C17 altered late C19. Roughcast over rubble, thatched roof hipped west end, double Roman tiled independently roofed east wing half hipped, external stack south-east gable end, stone stack north gable end. Plan: L-plan cottage with 2 cell south front, entrance east front with agricultural east wing addition. One and a half storeys, mostly C20 casements, east front to left gable end with external stack, two dormers right, agricultural building abutting ground floor: inserted window to right of stack, segmental headed leaded 2-light casement right of diagonally boarded double doors: re-entrant angle of wing lit ground floor only, 2-light leaded casement left, other 3 C19 leaded iron casements, garage doors gable end with 2-light C20 window above, south front wall to left hand bay set back, below hip of roof: 2 dormers, thatched roof canted bay with 3-light casement and to left half-glazed double doors. Interior not seen. [1] English Heritage Listed Building Number: 265497. First Listed on 22/05/1969. [2] L-plan. Stone, Render, roughcast and pebbledash walls. Hipped roof [3] The building was mentioned in the 2003 Conservation Area appraisal for Bossington and West Lynch, which stated "Also at this north-western edge of Bossington is Lower House, probably a former farmhouse originally dating from the 16-17th centuries, and altered and extended in the late 19th century, when most of the farm outbuildings were added. The current L-plan probably derives from the original two-cell SW front with an adapted former agricultural NW wing addition. Windows are mainly 19th century leaded light casements, and there is a diagonally boarded double-door entrance." [4] The building was visited in March 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [5]