Bedford Hotel
BEDFORD HOTEL, THE ESPLANADE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1097931
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bedford Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- BEDFORD HOTEL, THE ESPLANADE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1097931
- Date first listed:
- 12-Oct-1951
- List Entry Name:
- Bedford Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEDFORD HOTEL, THE ESPLANADE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- BEDFORD HOTEL, THE ESPLANADE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sidmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SY 12503 87209
Details
THE ESPLANADE 1. 1633 Bedford Hotel SY 1287 1/70 12.10.51. II* GV 2. Circa 1810 west front originally John Wallis's Library and Reading Rooms, a fashionable meeting-place of the time. Enlarged between 1815 and 1840 with later additions to Esplanade front, 3 storeys stucco faced, the top floor added later. Low pitch hipped slate roof, overhanging eaves. Esplanade front. 3 windows to original part, modern casements on later 2nd floor which has bracketed iron balcony with supports carried up to eaves. 3 windows 1st floor, outer ones sash with central French windows, drip moulds over giving onto crenellated terrace. Ground floor built out and glazed. Stepped projecting bays to east have 2-light mullioned and transomed windows with drip moulds over. The 1st floor of the eastern- most bay has a tent-roofed trellis balcony, probably a modern replacement. The west front has a very good stucco faced 3-window elevation. The 2nd floor has 3 low casements. 1st floor has French windows and balconies with tent-shaped canopies (restored). The central window is a canted bay with the balcony eturned round it.
The Bedford Hotel forms a group with the Sussex Hotel, Station Road.
Listing NGR: SY1250387209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 87322
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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