Mentone Hotel And Attached Walls And Gatepiers

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

MINEHEAD

SS9646 THE PARKS 900-1/3/94 (North East side) 28/10/76 No.18 Mentone Hotel and attached walls and gatepiers

GV II

House, now a hotel. c1870. Snecked red sandstone with painted freestone dressings and irregular rusticated quoins; crested slate roof with 3 machine-brick stacks to angle, rear and left slope. Irregular L-plan with wing on left having lower projecting forward-facing gable. Gothic Revival style. 2 storeys; 3-window range, with projecting gabled front to left-hand wing adjoining central entry. Windows have pointed arches. Hood-moulds on the first floor window of the left forward facing gable and over the 3-light casement window under pointed arch on the ground floor of the left return. 2- and 3-light mullioned sashes in half-dormers to the right, 3-light to the left gable end. A set-back studded and panelled door in the angle under slate lean-to porch is flanked by painted ashlar canted bays; that to the left has a 2-light sash window and hipped slate roof; that to the right has a 3-light window beneath a castellated parapet. Left return, in Western Lane has 2 gabled half-dormers over 2-light sash windows which flank 2 small 2-light casement windows at eaves level; 2- and 3-light sash and casement windows to the ground floor. INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES; a garden to the front and left return has a low rubblestone wall with painted freestone capping and matching but painted gabled gatepiers to the right.

Listing NGR: SS9655046271

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/1662 IOE Records taken by R M Rayner; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

Rights

© Mr R.M Rayner. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project