Piers and Boundary Wall to Royal Castle Hotel
PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL TO ROYAL CASTLE HOTEL, CASTLE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206509
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Piers and Boundary Wall to Royal Castle Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL TO ROYAL CASTLE HOTEL, CASTLE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1206509
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Piers and Boundary Wall to Royal Castle Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL TO ROYAL CASTLE HOTEL, CASTLE HILL
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:
- PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALL TO ROYAL CASTLE HOTEL, CASTLE HILL
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:
- SS7210549337
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS7149 CASTLE HILL, Lynton
858-1/4/9 (East side)
Piers and boundary wall to Royal
Castle Hotel
GV II
Gate piers and retaining walls. Early and later C19. Granite
piers, rubble or rendered rubble walls. The main retaining
wall, in rubble, runs up Castle Hill, across the full width of
the site, with a section setting-in at an angle towards the
top, and dying out to one of the set-back gate piers at the
left-hand.
The upper part of the wall, above a bold roll-mould, is smooth
rendered, and capped with very large crenellations, with
horizontal tops, but a series of breaks stepping down with the
hill slope. To the left is an octagonal pier with oversailing
crenellated crown, and with a small blind lancet on the shaft;
this rises to approx 2.5m height. A similar pier, with its
crown at the same level, and much shorter shaft because of the
rise in the levels, lies to the left, and is free-standing,
approx 1.5m from a further small section of retaining wall,
partly on the street, and partly returning behind the pier;
this is in rubble with crenellation similar to the main
section of wall. There is a third, free-standing granite gate
pier near the right-hand end of the site, but set well back
from the road, at the terrace level. This has a heavy pyramid
capping to the octagonal shaft. The piers are in material and
detail similar to the porch to the hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: SS7210549337
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376488
- 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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