Former Royal Castle Hotel

Former Royal Castle Hotel, Castle Heights, Lynton, EX35 6JD

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206504
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Former Royal Castle Hotel
Statutory Address:: Former Royal Castle Hotel, Castle Heights, Lynton, EX35 6JD

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places. Almost 350,000 photos and stories have been added so far.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2002-09-12
Reference:: IOE01/09137/02
Rights:: © Mr John Robins. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1206504
Date first listed:: 03-Sep-1973
List Entry Name:: Former Royal Castle Hotel
Statutory Address 1:: Former Royal Castle Hotel, Castle Heights, Lynton, EX35 6JD

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

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Former Royal Castle Hotel, Castle Heights, Lynton, EX35 6JD

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:: SS7212949357

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23 June 2025 to amend the name, address and description ue to change in building use, and. to reformat the text to current standards

SS7149 858-1/4/8

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH Lynton Castle Heights Former Royal Castle Hotel

(Formerly listed as Royal Castle Hotel, CASTLE HILL)

03/09/73

GV II Former hotel. c1810, much modified internally late C19. By a Mr Colley of Barnstaple. Rendered ground floor, painted slate-hung upper level, slate roof. The hotel much reduced in size since the previous list, is now one unit, parallel range, the wing and larger range described in the previous list having been demolished; on the northeast corner, rear, is a lightly attached billiard room. The front block appears to have originated as a symmetrical three window range, with a later extension to the right. Two storeys. 3+2 window front, all sashes; the upper floor has a central arched twenty-pane with radial bars, flanked by twelve-pane, and two further twelve-pane to the far right. The ground floor has a semi-octagonal granite porch with crenellations over a central arched opening, on three steps; to each side are glazed arched openings. To the left is a door with margin-pane glazing, and to the right a sash. Across this part of the frontage, broken by the porch, is the original tent canopy, with felted roof, and decorative cast-iron frieze and standards, returned also to the left. To the right is a complex gabled glazed porch over a pair of glazed doors with transom light. The left gable has a broad stack, and a lower hipped slate-hung extension, with west facing window, set above and cutting through the former tent canopy. The eaves course is formed by slates spaced as 'dentils'.

The sea frontage has three original twelve-pane and a later four-pane sash, and a small hipped semi-octagonal conservatory with cusped lights and patterned glass, and a later C19 double-gabled extension, set back to the right. To the left, projecting forward from the front, is a former billiard room with large twennty-pane sashes with Y-tracery and a central six-panel door in a deep arched reveal; there are two sashes facing north, above a basement. This is in the form of a pavilion, with pyramidal hipped roof.

INTERIOR: much modified, and much of the detailing is of the late C19. To left of main entry is one large space, formerly two rooms. To right is the staircase, rising from a lateral passage, with Minton tile floor, leading to service rooms on the ground floor. Beyond this is an inner room with an Art Nouveau fireplace surround including a beaten copper frieze and fine tiles, with decorative cast-iron grate; this is said to have been made from fragments of other fireplaces in the building, but looks consistent. The ceiling frieze is in flat scrolls. This room is enclosed by the later conservatory, at a lower level, with which it communicates through a full-width opening. Opposite the stair is a room with palmette cornice and Minton tile floor, the doorcases are reeded. The polished hardwood dogleg staircase is late C19 or early C20, with tapered octagonal balusters and capped newels, and panelling to the upper floor. Many doors are panelled with mouldings.

Listing NGR: SS7212949357

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 376487
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.