Berry Head Hotel
BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293258
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- List Entry Name:
- Berry Head Hotel
- Statutory Address:
- BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1293258
- Date first listed:
- 18-Oct-1949
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 18-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Berry Head Hotel
- Statutory Address 1:
- BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD 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:
- BERRY HEAD HOTEL, BERRY HEAD 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 93868 56728
Details
BRIXHAM
SX95NW BERRY HEAD ROAD, Berry Head 1946-1/2/20 (North side) 18/10/49 Berry Head Hotel (Formerly Listed as: BERRY HEAD ROAD Berry Head House Hotel)
GV II
Military hospital; later a private house, now an hotel. 1809-10; late C20 additions to north. Devonian limestone rubble. Hipped slated roof. Main building U-shaped with ranges to north, east, and west. Also 2 smaller buildings to south of east and west ranges, probably linked to the main building originally. The entrance was probably through the west side, between the 2 sections of the west range. 2 storeys. 9-window front to north, the end windows set in shallow projections. 7-window fronts to east and west. Windows have flat lintels of 3 limestone voussoirs. Late C20 windows in west range and north range. East range retains some original 6-paned sashes. Simple stepped top-cornice; low parapet with flat coping. This was later the home of the Rev HF Lyte, author of the hymn 'Abide with Me'. (Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Reports: Pye AR: Berry Head Fort, Brixham: 90.10: 1990-: P.7; Gregory C: Brixham in Devonia: Totnes: 1896-: P.48).
Listing NGR: SX9386856728
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383532
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gregory, C, Brixham in Devonia, (1896), 48
Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit Report in Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit, (1990), 7
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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