SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS

SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, NORTH WALK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210204
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, NORTH WALK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210204
Date first listed:: 09-Jun-1995
List Entry Name:: SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, NORTH WALK

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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: SEAWOOD HOTEL INCLUDING AREA RAILINGS, NORTH WALK

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 71920 49635

Details

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 NORTH WALK, Lynton 858-1/4/43 (South side) Seawood Hotel including area railings

GV II

Detached villa, now hotel. Reputedly built 1843. Rendered, slate roofs. Set high above North Walk to a terrace, and close against the rear rock face, the building has a symmetrical frontage with cross-gabled end wings slightly brought forward from the centre; looks like semi-detached pair but plan shows it to have been built as one residence, with end entry (right) to a long hall with lateral staircase, and central front parlour across both bays. A secondary rear stair was originally contained in a projecting turret, but replaced internally by an early C20 stair to the upper 2 floors. 2 storeys, attics and basement; 1:2:1-window front. The top floor has arched lights to the end gables and central gabled face dormers, and the first floor has sashes with vertical bars and margin-panes. At the ground floor are French windows on stone cills, but opening to access steps over the basement area. Basement lights, in deep reveals, sashed. The return gable to the left is in one bay with similar fenestration, with a rear gabled wing including a segmental-headed dormer. The right return is similar, but with doorway in the wing to the rear, with the original panelled door in reveals and pilaster doorcase. All roofs very steep, with decorative barge-boards, and windows have raised rendered surrounds with keystones and projecting jamb-stones on stone cills. Corners of end pavilions have alternating quoins. Narrow but deep stacks, with a rendered frieze band, and mainly with the original terracotta pots, each side of the central section. On 3 sides is a narrow area enclosed by a stone coping carrying low cast-iron decorative railings, returned to sets of steps to the ground-floor windows as full-height balustrades. INTERIOR: original details and fitting retained to a large extent. Most of the 4-panelled doors in architraves remain, and rooms have moulded and embellished cornices in varied patterns. Windows are shuttered. The central room has a painted marble fireplace, and dining room, at E end, has a marble fireplace, and frieze with roses and grapes; both fires have cast-iron grates. The long lateral straight-flight stair has fine turned balusters with hardwood handrail and open scrolled string, and arched central window has tinted and etched glass. The basement was not inspected. One of a series of hotels in North Walk, this retains most of its original detailing, and is a late example of Regency picturesque.

Listing NGR: SS7192049635

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Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.