Description

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 LYNMOUTH STREET, Lynmouth
858-1/4/75 (South West side)
18/09/72 Bath Hotel, with Pixie Dell
(Formerly Listed as:
LYNTON
LYNMOUTH STREET
(West side)
Pixie Dell, Bath Hotel)

GV II

Small villa, now hotel. Late C18 or early C19, with late C19
major extensions. Rendered, hipped slate roof.
The original building a small 2-storey range with central
gable slightly brought forward. 3-window front; 12-pane sashes
to first floor, and canted hipped bays with French doors and
side lights to the ground floor, flanking a small 9-pane light
with arched head, formerly the doorway. Set back to the left
is a 3-storey, 3-window range with small gables having
decorative barge-boards over the second floor lights. At the
ground floor is a large glazed extension. To the right is a
further large range, stepped forward, and with a full-height
octagonal bay to the left. Windows are varied casements mostly
with transoms.
The earlier building is representative of the early scale of
hotel development in Lynmouth. The later C19 extensions are
not included because of their late date and level of
alteration.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Pixie Dell is another of the early Halliday
(Glenthorne) estate buildings, reputedly a bath house. The
Revd W Halliday having originally resided in Clooneavin on the
cliffs above Lynmouth, prior to building Glenthorne House.

Listing NGR: SS7225349513

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26571716

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)