Alford House Hotel

LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH

SS7149 ALFORD TERRACE, Lynton 858-1/4/3 (South side) No.3 Alford House Hotel

GV II

Hotel, in house row. Site lease document in the house dated November 1845. For John Haynes, reputedly as a boarding house. Rendered, slate roof. A symmetrical double-depth block with 4-room plan and central stair. 2 storeys, attic and basement, 3 windows. 3 gabled half-dormers with 4-pane sashes, in architraves, above 2-light margin-pane casements, and a pair of French doors opening to the portico roof, all with architraves . At the ground floor are flat-roofed canted bays with French doors and casements, and central 5-panel door with fanlight in a deep square portico on Doric columns with responds and with a thin 3-part architrave. The stone landing to the portico has a cast-iron grille to the risers as ventilation to the basement, and there is a horizontal cast-iron ventilation grille in front of each of the canted bays. The dormers have barge-boards with drop finials and arch braces, and there is a stack to each gable end. The rear has 2 eaves stacks, and a small 2-light dormer. INTERIOR: the stick baluster stair with open string divides at the landing, which has an arched sash, with tinted and etched glass. The upper stair, through an archway, has a similar balustrade, swept handrail, and turned newels. Cornice mouldings in the ground-floor room to right include Greek key ornament. The basement was not inspected, but formerly connected by an arched tunnel to the doorway in the retaining wall (qv).

Listing NGR: SS7195449245