UPPER COBB HOUSE

UPPER COBB HOUSE, SIDMOUTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230339
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: UPPER COBB HOUSE
Statutory Address:: UPPER COBB HOUSE, SIDMOUTH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230339
Date first listed:: 31-Jan-1974
List Entry Name:: UPPER COBB HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: UPPER COBB HOUSE, SIDMOUTH ROAD

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:: UPPER COBB HOUSE, SIDMOUTH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Lyme Regis
National Grid Reference:: SY3341491967

Details

1. 1357 SY 3391 2/202

SIDMOUTH ROAD (South Side) Upper Cobb House

II

2, Formerly known as Little Cliff and marked as such on OS 25" map. Early to mid C19 villa; a building is shown on this site on a "Plan of Lyme Regis and Environs. 1841". Built on sloping ground. Entrance front of 1-storey and basement. Slate roof. Entrance floor has round-headed door to centre; fretwork panels to archivolt; panelled door; semi-circular fanlight. Area railings extend from either side of doorway. Also to either side of door, a round-headed window. Rectangular sashes with glazing bars to basement. Garden front of 2-storeys, 3-window bays. Overhanging eaves. Centre 1st floor window with 3-centred head; sash window to either side with louvred shutters. Coved veranda on trellised supports to ground floor. Large windows with glazing bars to centre of ground floor front with a glazed panel withinterlacing tracery over; to either end of ground floor a French casement with a similar narrower rectangular panel with interlacing tracery over. Within, plaster ceilings executed by Italian craftsmen to the design of the architect Arnold Mitchell (Fellow of RIBA; born 1863 died 1944).

Listing NGR: SY3341491967

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Legacy System number:: 405245
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.