MEM22349 - Alford House Hotel, Alford Terrace, Lynton (Building)
Summary
Please read the Exmoor National Park Historic Environment Record caveat document.
Type and Period (1)
Protected Status
Full Description
Hotel, in house row. Site lease document in the house dated November 1845. For John Haynes, reputedly as a boarding house. Rendered, slate roof. A symmetrical double-depth block with 4-room plan and central stair. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 3 windows. 3 gabled half-dormers with 4-pane sashes, in architraves, above 2-light margin-pane casements, and a pair of French doors opening to the portico roof, all with architraves . At the ground floor are flat-roofed canted bays with French doors and casements, and central 5-panel door with fanlight in a deep square portico on Doric columns with responds and with a thin 3-part architrave. The stone landing to the portico has a cast-iron grille to the risers as ventilation to the basement, and there is a horizontal cast-iron ventilation grille in front of each of the canted bays. The dormers have barge-boards with drop finials and arch braces, and there is a stack to each gable end. The rear has 2 eaves stacks, and a small 2-light dormer. INTERIOR: the stick baluster stair with open string divides at the landing, which has an arched sash, with tinted and etched glass. The upper stair, through an archway, has a similar balustrade, swept handrail, and turned newels. Cornice mouldings in the ground-floor room to right include Greek key ornament. The basement was not inspected, but formerly connected by an arched tunnel to the doorway in the retaining wall (qv). [1] A lease document states that it was reputedly built as a boarding house in 1845. It has a two-storey, three-bay frontage with barge-boarded half dormers having drop finials and arch braces. There is a combination of French doors, casement and sash windows, some forming canted bays, others with margin glazing bars. An arched landing sash window has tinted and etched glass. The central five-panel door is set in a deep, square portico on Doric columns. There are also many original interior features including a stick baluster stair with swept hand rails and turned newels. [2] The building was visited in April 2012 as part of the rapid condition survey of Exmoor's Listed Buildings 2012-13. It received a BAR score of 6. [3]
Sources/Archives (3)
- <1> SMO5109 Index: Department of the Environment. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest . 9 June 1995.
- <2> SEM6953 Report: Fisher, J.. 2002. Lynton: Conservation Area Character Appraisal. 16.
- <3> SEM8060 Report: Lawrence, G.. 2014. Exmoor National Park: Rapid condition survey of listed buildings 2012-13.
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Other Statuses/References
- 2012-3 Building At Risk Score (6): 858/1/4/3
- Local List Status (No)
Location
Grid reference | Centred SS 7195 4924 (13m by 10m) |
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Map sheet | SS74NW |
Civil Parish | LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH, NORTH DEVON, DEVON |
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Record last edited
Jun 10 2021 11:18AM
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