Bossington Place Lodge is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 October 1980. Lodge.
Bossington Place Lodge
- WRENN ID
- solemn-rubblework-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 October 1980
- Type
- Lodge
- Address
- Bossington Place Lodge, Porlock, Somerset
- OS grid reference
- SS 889 469
- Coordinates
- 51.21078, -3.59076
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Bossington Place Lodge, formerly known as New Place Lodge, is a lodge to Bossington Place, now a private dwelling, built around 1900, presumably by Edmund Buckle. The building is rendered over rubble and features a hipped thatched roof with circular roughcast stacks rising above the eaves. It has a plan that includes a gateway flanked by single rooms, each with separate staircases, showcasing a picturesque vernacular style.
The lodge is one and a half storeys tall and consists of three bays. The outer bays have hipped thatched dormers with 2-light casements, while the central bay has a thatched roof that sweeps down over a 3-light casement above a square-headed gateway opening, which has wooden lintels and jambs, along with hipped thatched hoods over the 4-light canted outer bays. The rear elevation features arched studded double doors with a wicket gate and Tudor arch-headed entrances. Due to the sloping site, the north-east corner at the rear is supported on a single circular column. The lodge was illustrated by Chadwyck-Healey in his book, The History of the Part of West Somerset, published in 1901.
Local climate
Bossington Place Lodge sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,150 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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