MERRIMEADE HOTEL

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:: MERRIMEADE HOTEL, LOWER TOWN

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Date:: 2003-07-14
Reference:: IOE01/11048/15
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Official list entry

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

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:: 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

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Legacy System number:: 96000
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.