THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL

THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL, 11 AND 12, FORTESCUE ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281904
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL
Statutory Address:: THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL, 11 AND 12, FORTESCUE ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1281904
Date first listed:: 14-Mar-1994
List Entry Name:: THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL
Statutory Address 1:: THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL, 11 AND 12, FORTESCUE 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:: THE HIGHLANDS HOTEL, 11 AND 12, FORTESCUE ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: North Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ilfracombe
National Grid Reference:: SS5168047635

Details

SS5147 853-1/6/52

ILFRACOMBE FORTESCUE ROAD (West side) Nos.11 AND 12 The Highlands Hotel

II

Pair of semi-detached houses. Probably early 1880s; by WM Robbins of Ilfracombe. MATERIALS: red brick with bands of cream and blue brick; red terracotta and painted stone detail. Slated roofs, tarred at No.11; perforated crested ridge tiles, No.11 with a terracotta finial on the gable. C20 red brick chimney on party wall; also on rear gable of No.12 visible only from the Back Way, a red brick one with cream coloured brick band. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with garrets; No.12 with semi basement where the ground falls away. Similar, but not identical fronts in Gothic style. No.11 has a square 3-light bay window in gabled centre projection, with a pair of windows to the right and a lower, 2-storeyed entrance porch to the left, set well back. No.12 has canted bay window to left in gabled projection with half-hipped roof; one window to right with another on the splayed corner, and beyond that a 3-storeyed entrance porch set well back. Paired windows in semi basement. All the windows except those in the gables have flat moulded and carved lintels, those in the ground storey, and in the third storey to the right of the bays, having pointed relieving arches filled with patterned terracotta. The splayed corner has a similar terracotta panel between the ground and second storey windows; under the eaves is an elaborately carved corbel. All the windows have plain sashes, except for the dormer at No.12, which has a C20 casement. Eaves cornices and gable verges of heavily moulded brick; gable of No.11 is eccentrically designed so that it appears to be a small gable rising out of a half-hip, while at No.12 the half hip projects and is coved on the underside. No.11 has, to the right of the main gable, a brick dormer gable with hipped roof, while No.12 has a gabled wood dormer in a corresponding position. In front of each entrance porch is a single-storeyed wood outer porch with elaborately shaped brackets and open work; upon the roof of the outer porch at No.12 is a patterned, balustraded wooden railing. 4-panelled door at No.11, late C20 panelled door at No.12. The door at No.12 is reached by a flight of cemented steps; along the right-hand side of it is a brick wall with chamfered coping, and at the foot a square brick pier with chamfered base and moulded cap. The side walls of both houses are of good architectural quality, with detail matching the plainer work on the fronts. INTERIORS not inspected. (Hussell AT: Ilfracombe Chronicle 13.8.1937: 8).

Listing NGR: SS5168047635

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Sources

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'Ilfracombe Chronicle' in 13 August, (1937), 8

Legal

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