SIMONSBATH HOUSE HOTEL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058031
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1959
List Entry Name:: SIMONSBATH HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address:: SIMONSBATH HOUSE HOTEL

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Date:: 2001-07-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1058031
Date first listed:: 06-Apr-1959
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-Jan-1986
List Entry Name:: SIMONSBATH HOUSE HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: SIMONSBATH HOUSE HOTEL

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SIMONSBATH HOUSE HOTEL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Exmoor
National Park:: EXMOOR
National Grid Reference:: SS 77225 39232

Details

SS73NE 11/14 6.4.59

EXMOOR CP SIMONSBATH Simonsbath House Hotel(formerly listed as Simonsbath Lodge)

GII House,now hotel.Mid C17,extensively altered C19 and C20.Built for John Boevey.Roughcast over rubble,butumen covered slate roofs,pyramid roof to porch with soffit board,roughcast stacks between fist and second bays right,between second and third at gable end of original dwelling,to right of porch and set below rebuilt gable end right.Plan:internally much altered,three or four-cell and cross passage with full height porch extended to U-plan.Two storeys,two:three:one:two bays,mainly C20 casements,tripartite sash windows second bay left,third bay canted bay window with twenty-four-pane sash window,right of porch twelve-pane sash window first floor,three-light casement below,tall porch with C19 canted oriel window,moulded C17 door,partly renewed,reached by flight of four slate steps,C20 inner door.Gabled two-storey,two-bay wing right,three-storey agricultural wing adjoining left.Interior:fireplace with chamfered lintel and enriched stops to right of cross passage dated 1654,imported C17 panelling and overmantel in hall from Weir Gifford,Bideford,North Devon with painted coats of arms,coved ceiling to porch room. This was built by the Warden of Exmoor Forest,John Boevey,and was until the early C19 the only house in the Royal Forest.Circa 1819 it became the home of the Knight family and was subsequently much altered by the Fortescues in the early C20.

Listing NGR: SS7722539232

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Legacy System number:: 265427
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.