Description

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 WATERSMEET ROAD, Lynmouth
858-1/4/92 (West side)
03/09/73 No.14
Summerhouse and attached retaining
wall and terrace with railings
(Formerly Listed as:
LYNTON
WATERSMEET ROAD
No.14
Summerhouse)

GV II

Hotel. Mid C19. Rendered, slate roof. Main range to the street
is set up on a terrace, and has a gable to the left, slightly
brought forward. A rear wing runs back to the excavated rock
face, with a one-storey later lean-to.
2 storeys, attic and basement. Windows are generally 2-light
stone mullioned and transomed casements. The street front has
a small light in the gable, above 1+2 casements with stopped
drip-courses, and at ground floor is a shallow square bay with
hipped roof, and one window without drip-course. Between these
a glazed lean-to porch over the main door. The return gable
has a small 2-light above large the same, and a canted bay
with hipped roof; to the right, set back, the wing has a small
gable above a 2-light with drip-course, a replacement light,
and the lean-to extension. The gables have decorative
barge-boards, and there is a deep stack to the ridge, left of
the main doorway. The left-hand return wall is plain, and
faces a narrow passageway with stone steps between this and
No.20 (qv). INTERIOR not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: across the whole frontage, and linking
right to the frontage of No.12 (qv), is a painted rubble
retaining wall of storey height. At the left-hand end is an
inserted wall with broad strip window, then 3 rough arches on
piers, with 2 small lights to the right. Beyond the house
front the wall ramps down, with a series of square piers to a
paired tubular rail, and enclosing a flight of stone steps.
Set behind the steps is a further retaining wall to plain
coping and railing; this is curved on plan, and abuts No.12.
Simple iron railings in 5 bays with standards and returns
cross the house front to a shallow terrace, and a similar rail
runs on the section of set-back wall.
One of a series of hotels built here in the first half of the
C19. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: SS7251449318

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26505385

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