Lynton Museum and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Museum. 1 related planning application.

Lynton Museum and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Exmoor National Park
Constituency
North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
Country
England
Type
Museum
Address
Lynton Museum and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate, Market Street, Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon, EX35 6AF
OS grid reference
SS 720 493
Coordinates
51.22908, -3.83432
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lynton Museum is a detached house built in the mid-18th century, with mid-19th century windows. It features limewashed rubble walls and a stone slate roof on the front slope, with a slate roof on the rear slope. The building has a symmetrical design, with a small rear range and a narrow link extending to the right, connecting it to St Vincent. It stands two storeys high and has a three-window front, all with two-light casements that have margin bars and slate cills. The central entrance consists of a six-panel door. The house has brick gable stacks, with a plain left gable and a slate-hung right gable. The rear includes a small gabled wing on the left and a glazed pent-roofed gallery projecting forward to the right.

Inside, the ground floor consists of two rooms without a dividing passage, featuring a lime-ash floor in the left room, with no exposed beams or joists. A lateral stair rises to the left, with a landing balustrade made of thin turned balusters. The first floor retains many original wide floorboards.

The property is enclosed by a rubble wall with on-edge stone coping, which surrounds a small front garden, and includes a decorative iron gate set between square piers opposite the entrance door. Historically, this house was once a service range for St Vincent, and the link was likely built during that time. The property was donated to the town by Henry Sutton, the first Secretary of the Exmoor Society, in 1962.

Local climate

Lynton Museum and Attached Boundary Walls and Gate sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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