Charmouth House Hotel

CHARMOUTH HOUSE HOTEL, THE STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Explore this list entry

Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1288231
Date first listed:
03-Nov-1970
List Entry Name:
Charmouth House Hotel
Statutory Address:
CHARMOUTH HOUSE HOTEL, THE STREET
User submitted image
Contributed by David Lovell This photo may not represent the current condition of the site. Over 400,000 images and stories have been added to the Missing Pieces Project so far. Share your story.
View all

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places. 

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

Icon Buildings
Icon Scheduled monuments
Icon Parks and gardens
Icon Battlefields
Icon Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.
Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.
Date:
2001-06-30
Reference:
IOE01/08011/27
Rights:
© Mrs Barbara E. Collins. Source: Historic England Archive

Local Heritage Hub

Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.

Discover more

Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1288231
Date first listed:
03-Nov-1970
List Entry Name:
Charmouth House Hotel
Statutory Address 1:
CHARMOUTH HOUSE HOTEL, THE STREET

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CHARMOUTH HOUSE HOTEL, THE STREET

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

District:
Dorset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Charmouth
National Grid Reference:
SY 36224 93583

Details

SY 3693 CHARMOUTH THE STREET, SOUTH SIDE

8/41 Charmouth House Hotel 3.11.70

- II

Hotel, formerly Inn and some time private house, c C17 and with Cl9 and C20 refashioning. Stone walls, plastered. Thatch roof, hipped at east end and gabled at west end with a stone coping. 3 stacks at east end eaves (rendered), at centre: ridge, at west gable end. Plan: main range-along street with 2 return wings to south at each end. North elevation: 2 storeys. 6 windows, wooden casements with renewed cross-transoms in the west 3 bays and 3-lighters with glazing bars in east 3 bays. Front wall projects forward by 4 feet in the west 3 bays. Front door to street, at centre: wooden door with 6 panels, four glazed and a fluted pilaster doorcase. Plastic thatch canopy over. Return wings: west with coursed rubble stone wall, curved and washed. Thatch roof, hipped at south end, with 2 brick stacks on ridge. 2 small sliding- sash windows. 1 cellar-door, 2-leaf with heavy wood lintel over. East wing of 2 storeys, 5 windows, C19 sashes and 3 rendered stacks at eaves. Projecting stack to the one nearest street. C20 door at centre.

Interior: ceiling beams in present hall, hollow-chamfered and roll-moulded originally making large compartments. Extensive flagstone floors in western end. "RCHM, Dorset I", p 89 (9).

Listing NGR: SY3622493583

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
400288
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Inventory of Dorset, (1974), 89

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Charmouth House Hotel

Map

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 15-Jun-2026 at 23:30:59.

Download a full scale map (PDF)
© Crown copyright [and database rights] 2026. OS AC0000815036. Use of this mapping is subject to Terms and Conditions.

End of official list entry

All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.

Previous Overview
Next Comments and Photos