Lynton Museum And Attached Boundary Walls And Gate

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.