Seaton Hotel And West Extension

SEATON CAREW CHURCH STREET NZ 52 NW (south side) 7/141 Seaton Hotel and west extension (formerly 24.3.50 listed in The Front)

• II

Hotel, c.1792, of painted dressed limestone with Westmorland slate roofs. 2 storeys to left, 2½ to right; 4 bays. 2nd bay projects slightly under shallow gable and has c.1900 flat-roofed porch with entablature, panelled, clasping and doorway pilasters and mid C20 door under fanlight. Early C20 leaded-light mullioned-and-transomed window to first bay under Venetian window with late C19 sashes and impost bands. c.1900 bay windows to ground floor of bays 3 and 4, under first-floor sashes with glazing bars. Early C20 leaded-light stair window above porch. Sash windows with glazing bars to attic of bays 2,3 and 4, and in gabled ½-dormers in bays 3 and 4. Left-hand return has central 2-storey convex-plan quadripartite bay window, flanked by Venetian first-floor windows; all with late C19 sashes and impost bands. Early C20 leaded-light glazing to ground floor. Chamfered quoins to angles; string bands between floors and sills to all windows. Hipped roof has 2 rendered ridge stacks. Rear (south) 3-storey wing of similar character. Slightly later and lower west extension: roughcast, of 2 storeys, 2 bays, having c.1900 door and window to left, 3-centred carriage arch to right. First-floor sash windows with glazing bars and gabled roof dormers. Early C20 rear extension is not of interest.

Listing NGR: NZ5252429576