Bossington Place

Bossington Place is a country house that has been converted into a hotel. It was built between 1890 and 1892 by architect Edmund Buckle for Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, and it was extended in 1922 by Michael Waterhouse. The building features sandstone rubble with Ham stone dressings, slate roofs, and coped verges. It has large round stacks to the left of the entrance and a battered pair on the right return flanking the gable. The design is in the Elizabethan style, with an E-plan layout.

The house is two and a half and two storeys tall, with gable fronted wings on either side of a full height gabled porch. It has five bays, including a 3-light attic window in the wings and a prominent 12-light mullioned and transomed window in the hall, which has graduated lights. To the left of the gabled porch is a 6-light mullioned and transomed window, and the wall is raked to a string course. Below the moulded Tudor arch doorway, there is a coat of arms, and a ribbed door leads into the building. There is also a 3-light vertical light set in the angle and a right 3-light window above the 6-light mullioned and transomed window.

Inside, the building features a polygonal plan gallery with a strapwork balustrade and ribbed plaster ceilings in the hall. The dining room has a leatherwork frieze, while the sitting room boasts a heavy cross-beamed ceiling and a patterned plaster ceiling. A punning rebus representing the architect's name, a buckle, is carved into the side of the porch on the north face. Sir Charles Chadwyck-Healey, the original owner, served as Chancellor of the Diocess of Bath and Wells, Salisbury, and Exeter, and he authored "The History of the Part of West Somerset" in 1901.