Summerhouse and Attached Retaining Wall and Terrace With Railings
SUMMERHOUSE AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALL AND TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 14, WATERSMEET ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210335
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse and Attached Retaining Wall and Terrace With Railings
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALL AND TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 14, WATERSMEET ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210335
- Date first listed:
- 03-Sept-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse and Attached Retaining Wall and Terrace With Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALL AND TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 14, WATERSMEET ROAD
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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:
- SUMMERHOUSE AND ATTACHED RETAINING WALL AND TERRACE WITH RAILINGS, 14, WATERSMEET ROAD
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 72514 49318
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS7149 WATERSMEET ROAD, Lynmouth 858-1/4/92 (West side) 03/09/73 No.14 Summerhouse and attached retaining wall and terrace with railings (Formerly Listed as: LYNTON WATERSMEET ROAD No.14 Summerhouse)
GV II
Hotel. Mid C19. Rendered, slate roof. Main range to the street is set up on a terrace, and has a gable to the left, slightly brought forward. A rear wing runs back to the excavated rock face, with a one-storey later lean-to. 2 storeys, attic and basement. Windows are generally 2-light stone mullioned and transomed casements. The street front has a small light in the gable, above 1+2 casements with stopped drip-courses, and at ground floor is a shallow square bay with hipped roof, and one window without drip-course. Between these a glazed lean-to porch over the main door. The return gable has a small 2-light above large the same, and a canted bay with hipped roof; to the right, set back, the wing has a small gable above a 2-light with drip-course, a replacement light, and the lean-to extension. The gables have decorative barge-boards, and there is a deep stack to the ridge, left of the main doorway. The left-hand return wall is plain, and faces a narrow passageway with stone steps between this and No.20 (qv). INTERIOR not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: across the whole frontage, and linking right to the frontage of No.12 (qv), is a painted rubble retaining wall of storey height. At the left-hand end is an inserted wall with broad strip window, then 3 rough arches on piers, with 2 small lights to the right. Beyond the house front the wall ramps down, with a series of square piers to a paired tubular rail, and enclosing a flight of stone steps. Set behind the steps is a further retaining wall to plain coping and railing; this is curved on plan, and abuts No.12. Simple iron railings in 5 bays with standards and returns cross the house front to a shallow terrace, and a similar rail runs on the section of set-back wall. One of a series of hotels built here in the first half of the C19. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: SS7251449318
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376548
- 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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