Clifton House

CLIFTON HOUSE, 3, CLIFTON PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097948
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Clifton House
Statutory Address:
CLIFTON HOUSE, 3, CLIFTON PLACE
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1097948
Date first listed:
12-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:
Clifton House
Statutory Address 1:
CLIFTON HOUSE, 3, CLIFTON PLACE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLIFTON HOUSE, 3, CLIFTON PLACE

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 12260 87084

Details

CLIFTON PLACE 1. 1633 No 3 (Clifton House) SY 1287 1/46 12.10.51. II GV 2. Formerly the Clifton Hotel which was partly destroyed by fire soon after World War II. Gable end slate roof replaces thatch. The west end to road has been built up to 2 storeys with gable. Sea front retains part of original 2 storey elevation, stuccoed. 3 windows, the outer ones in slightly bowed bays. Modern Georgian canopies to doorways. 4 windows on 1st floor and 3 on ground floor to Peak Hill Road, sashes with glazing bars. The house forms part of a group, between the cliff edge and Peak Hill Road at the west end of the Esplanade, that is one of Sidmouth's most characteristic features.

All the listed buildings in Clifton Place form a group.

Listing NGR: SY1226087084

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Legacy System number:
87266
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.

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