Merrimeade Hotel
MERRIMEADE HOTEL, LOWER TOWN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106395
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Merrimeade Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- MERRIMEADE HOTEL, LOWER TOWN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1106395
- Date first listed:
- 17-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Merrimeade Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- MERRIMEADE HOTEL, LOWER TOWN
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:
- MERRIMEADE HOTEL, LOWER TOWN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Mid Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sampford Peverell
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 03098 14202
Details
SAMPFORD PEVERELL LOWER TOWN (south side) ST 01 SW Sampford Peverell 8/151 Merrimeade Hotel - GV II Hotel. Mid C19, C20 extensions. Plastered stone rubble; stone rubble or brick stacks topped with C19 brick; slate roof. Plan: the house faces north-west. It is set back from the street and built above it on a terrace. The main house has a double depth plan containing a front and back room either side of a central through passage which also contains the main stair in the rear section. The rooms are heated by gable-end stacks. C20 restaurant and hotel extension to rear and right. The right wing is probably converted from the original stables and service wing. It is 2 storeys with cellars. Exterior: main block has a symmetrical 3-window front of 16-panes arranged around a central doorway which contains a 6-panel door and overlight with glazing bars, panelled reveals and a flat roofed timber porch with tapering panelled posts and a moulded entablature. The plaster is lightly incised as ashlar. Deep eaves are carried on a series of shaped brackets. The roof is gable-ended. Each end wall contains a central first floor window with pointed head. Interior still contains a great deal of original joinery and other detail including an open string geometric stair with stick balusters.
Listing NGR: ST0309814202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 96000
- 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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