Shelley's Cottage (Part of Rising Sun Hotel)
SHELLEY'S COTTAGE (PART OF RISING SUN HOTEL), MARS HILL, LYNMOUTH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201150
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Shelley's Cottage (Part of Rising Sun Hotel)
- Statutory Address:
- SHELLEY'S COTTAGE (PART OF RISING SUN HOTEL), MARS HILL, LYNMOUTH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201150
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Shelley's Cottage (Part of Rising Sun Hotel)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELLEY'S COTTAGE (PART OF RISING SUN HOTEL), MARS HILL, LYNMOUTH
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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:
- SHELLEY'S COTTAGE (PART OF RISING SUN HOTEL), MARS HILL, LYNMOUTH
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 72221 49582
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 08/01/2015
SS7149
858-1/4/81
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH, Lynmouth,
MARS HILL (West side),
Shelley's Cottage (part of Rising Sun Hotel)
(Formerly listed as No.1 Shelley's Cottage (part of Rising Sun Hotel), MARS HILL)
(Formerly Listed as: No.1 Shelley's Cottage, MARS HILL, LYNTON)
19/07/50
GV II
Detached cottage. C17 or C18. Rendered cob or rubble, thatch
roof, but some tiles on rear slope. 2-unit plan with end and
front lateral stacks to heated ground-floor rooms; a small
cottage, at the end of the row climbing Mars Hill, at right
angles to these and facing S.
2 storeys; 2-window range, all casements; at first floor, in
small gabled 'eyebrows', a single- and 2-light to a thin
mullion, above a C20 door. To the left, forward, is a large
stepped square stack with attached bread oven under slate
roofing, with another stack to the right gable, which has a
small light over French doors. The rear has two C20 casements.
INTERIOR: only partly inspected, but seriously damaged by fire
in 1907, and shows no evidence of early features.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the property now forms part of the Rising Sun
Hotel (qv). It is one of 2 houses in Lynmouth which claim to
be where Shelley stayed in 1812 for 9 weeks while he was
writing 'Queen Mab'. The rival claimant is Shelley's Cottage
Hotel (qv) in Watersmeet Road, which has some secondary
documentary evidence in support, although romantic tradition
would point to the Mars Hill cottage as being a more likely
base for the poet.
Listing NGR: SS7221549580
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376527
- 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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