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

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Recommended Books

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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)