Bath Hotel With Pixie Dell

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 LYNMOUTH STREET, Lynmouth 858-1/4/75 (South West side) 18/09/72 Bath Hotel, with Pixie Dell (Formerly Listed as: LYNTON LYNMOUTH STREET (West side) Pixie Dell, Bath Hotel)

GV II

Small villa, now hotel. Late C18 or early C19, with late C19 major extensions. Rendered, hipped slate roof. The original building a small 2-storey range with central gable slightly brought forward. 3-window front; 12-pane sashes to first floor, and canted hipped bays with French doors and side lights to the ground floor, flanking a small 9-pane light with arched head, formerly the doorway. Set back to the left is a 3-storey, 3-window range with small gables having decorative barge-boards over the second floor lights. At the ground floor is a large glazed extension. To the right is a further large range, stepped forward, and with a full-height octagonal bay to the left. Windows are varied casements mostly with transoms. The earlier building is representative of the early scale of hotel development in Lynmouth. The later C19 extensions are not included because of their late date and level of alteration. HISTORICAL NOTE: Pixie Dell is another of the early Halliday (Glenthorne) estate buildings, reputedly a bath house. The Revd W Halliday having originally resided in Clooneavin on the cliffs above Lynmouth, prior to building Glenthorne House.

Listing NGR: SS7225349513