Castle Hornet
CASTLE HORNET, 9, SUMMERHOUSE PATH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201154
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Hornet
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE HORNET, 9, SUMMERHOUSE PATH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1201154
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Hornet
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE HORNET, 9, SUMMERHOUSE PATH
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:
- CASTLE HORNET, 9, SUMMERHOUSE PATH
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 72435 49320
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS7149 SUMMERHOUSE PATH, Lynmouth 858-1/4/83 (South side) 03/09/73 No.9 Castle Hornet
II
Detached house. C18 or early C19. Whitewashed rubble, slate roof. A small L-plan cottage set high on the slope of Summerhouse Hill, probably original a 2-room cottage, to which lower wing added to SE. 2 storeys. The main range has a small 2-light casement, and a small-pane casement oriel with gable; to the left is a part-glazed C19 door under a transom light with oval glazed light, to a wood lintel and on 2 deep steps. The gable to the right has an external stack with a C20 window at first floor and a circular light to ground floor, left, below the terrace level. The left gable also has a stack, and a large flat-roofed semi-octagonal oriel brought forward from the roof of the lower wing. The wing has a 2-light casement in the gable, above a door, and two 2-light facing the entrance. There is a small eaves stack on the far side. INTERIOR: not accessible. The small scale of the building suggests early provenance.
Listing NGR: SS7243549320
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376540
- 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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