The Manor Cottage

THE MANOR COTTAGE, LYNMOUTH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201148
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:
The Manor Cottage
Statutory Address:
THE MANOR COTTAGE, LYNMOUTH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1201148
Date first listed:
19-Jul-1950
List Entry Name:
The Manor Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
THE MANOR COTTAGE, LYNMOUTH STREET

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:
THE MANOR COTTAGE, LYNMOUTH STREET

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

County:
Devon
District:
North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:
Lynton and Lynmouth
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 72236 49587

Details

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 LYNMOUTH STREET, Lynmouth 858-1/4/77 (West side) 19/07/50 The Manor Cottage

GV II

Shop with offices over, formerly house. Early to mid C19. Rendered, slate roofs. In 2 parts; the older, 3-storey range to the right, and later 2-storey, in the same plane, left. The earlier range has 2 casements at second floor with margin-pane glazing, above 3 at first floor in 1, 2 and 1 lights with diamond panes in cast-iron. At ground floor a full-width C20 display window with door. A stack to the left gable. The lower range has two 2-light casements with horizontal bars above a full-width C20 shop-front with door, and a plain return to the left. The main gable to the right (N) has a 2-light margin-pane casement to the second floor, with another at first floor plus a doorway at the head of an external staircase; the ground floor has a C20 display window. The building is in very shallow depth, and is backed against the rising slope of Mars Hill. INTERIOR not inspected. An early photograph in Loveless shows the ground floor in the 3-storey range with a single sash. The property was damaged in the 1952 floods. (Loveless J: Reflections on Lynton and Lynmouth, Old and New: Plymouth: 1989-).

Listing NGR: SS7221949616

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
376521
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Loveless, J, Reflections on Lynton and Lynmouth Old and New, (1989)

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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