Westwell Hall Hotel

ILFRACOMBE

SS5147 TORRS PARK 853-1/6/134 (North side) Westwell Hall Hotel

GV II

Large detached house, now an hotel, situated on a minor road running north-east from the main road through Torrs Park. Probably 1880 by WC Oliver of Barnstaple. Gothic style. MATERIALS: cream brick with dressings of red brick and stone; gables with mock timber-framing. Tarred, slated roof with crested ridge tiles and terracotta finials. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with garrets. 5-window front towards the road with twin gabled entrance front to right. The 5-window front has a 4-storeyed canted bay window in centre, the top storey of wood with patterned bargeboards. Ground and third storey windows have shouldered arches, those in the second storey having pointed arches, the window heads with transom lights each containing 2 cusped pointed arches. Entrance porch in right side wall with pointed arched doorway, round traceried window and parapet with open Gothic tracery. INTERIOR: Details include original fireplaces, cornices, picture rails. C18 style stair with barley sugar balusters. Large axial entrance and stair hall with dado rail, lyncrusta paper. Original panelled doors with moulded cases. HISTORY: plans for a detached house in Torrs Park very similar to this were submitted to the Board by WC Oliver on 26.8.1880 on behalf of Rev. Wilf Fisher. They were referred back but later approved. (Ilfracombe Local Board of Health Planning Register & file No 10: North Devon District Council Planning Department: 3; Devon Record Office, 2458 add, No 10 (block plan only)).

Listing NGR: SS5100447289