Ranscombe House Hotel
RANSCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, RANSCOMBE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218353
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Ranscombe House Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- RANSCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, RANSCOMBE ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/04458/13
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218353
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1975
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Ranscombe House Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- RANSCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, RANSCOMBE ROAD
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:
- RANSCOMBE HOUSE HOTEL, RANSCOMBE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Brixham
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 92964 56226
Details
BRIXHAM
SX9256SE RANSCOMBE ROAD, Lower Brixham 1946-1/11/211 (North East side) 10/01/75 Ranscombe House Hotel (Formerly Listed as: RANSCOMBE ROAD (North East side) Nos.39-49 Ranscombe House)
GV II
Detached house, now hotel. Early/mid C19, with mid C19 additions. Solid rendered walls. Hipped slated roof. Main block of double-depth plan, 2 rooms-wide with passage behind front rooms separating them from service quarters; entrance and stair-hall to rear right. Short one-room wing at each side, probably added later. 2 storeys, the main block set on a high basement; inserted garret. Symmetrical 3-window front with 1-window wings. Ground storey of main block has round-arched, semicircular niche in centre. French windows with transom-lights at either side. Each leaf has 6 long panes with splayed corners; diamond-shaped panes at the intersections. 4-pane transom-lights in same style. Upper-storey windows have matching 2-light wood casements, except that the panes are square with splayed corners. Outer windows have 6 panes per light and 4-paned transom-lights. Central window (possibly altered) has 12-paned French windows. In front of both storeys a mid C19 two-tiered cast-iron balcony with ornate railings and moulded posts having traceried brackets at the top. Raised band between storeys. Deep, flat eaves-cornice, continued round the side and rear walls. 2 flat-topped mid/late C20 dormers. Right wing is single-storeyed with curved parapet sweeping up to the main block. Pointed-arched window with 2-light wood casement having 2 panes per light; intersecting Gothic tracery in the head. Mid C19 entrance on right side with flanking pilasters and moulded cornice on consoles; gable with pierced bargeboards. To right of it a late C20 small-paned wood casement window. Left wing is 2-storeyed with lean-to roof. Pointed-arched windows in each storey with small-paned sash windows; that in ground storey has 3 over 3 panes with intersecting Gothic tracery in the head of the upper sash; that in upper storey has 2 over 2 panes with glazing bars forming 2 pointed arches in the head of the upper sash. INTERIOR: main ground-floor rooms inspected. The 2 front rooms (now combined) have moulded cornices and panelled shutters, the panels carrying a raised moulding. Moulded cornices in rear passage and right-hand wing room, the latter with plainer panelled shutters. Geometric wood stair with narrow well; cut strings, moulded nosings to treads, thin square balusters, handrail voluted at the bottom. Entrance lobby has moulded cornice; half-glazed inner door with coloured leaded glass. Beyond it,a segmental arch on consoles.
Listing NGR: SX9296456226
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383718
- 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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