Lynton Cottage Hotel

The Lynton Cottage Hotel comprises a range of buildings dating from the early 19th century, with significant additions in the later 19th and 20th centuries. The original section was a long, narrow building built on a raised area of rock, with a prominent wing projecting with a bowed end to the right. Originally, a low thatched verandah ran along the front of the building and around the bow, but this has been removed and replaced with a flat-roofed dining-room extension. A square pavilion was added to the left, and a more complex block to the right. The building is constructed of rendered material with slate roofs, and is of a picturesque neo-Tudor style.

The central range features five windows, with two-light casements, small panes, and stopped drip-courses above a flat-roofed extension. Newer entrance doors are located in the last bay to the right. The bowed end contains three similar casements above and deep French doors with margin-pane glazing on the ground floor, opening onto a terrace. A large casement dormer faces east, with a further casement and French doors on the return side. To the left, the pavilion has a pyramidal roof and gablets over two-light casements with drip-courses. The ground floor of the pavilion has been altered, with a large bricked-up opening and a blocked bay on the return, which previously held a glazed conservatory. A wing to the right extends over three storeys, with varied fenestration, including four-pane sashes and a pair of early part-glazed doors within an elliptical carriage opening. This wing connects to North Walk via a bridge at a higher level. A substantial brick stack is located to the right of the bow, and the later wing features brick stacks in Tudor detail.

Inside, opposite the main entrance, a staircase with stick balustrades and swept handrails divides at a quarter-landing, with a screen of two wide elliptical openings supported by slender cast-iron columns. The bow room has a frieze and cove cornice, a white marble pilaster fireplace with decorative inset tiles, and an elliptical recess, with the door set in panelled reveals. A kitchen at the rear features a deep arched fire recess, small-pane casements, and a door with a six-pane overlight. Upstairs, the end pavilion room has a Victorian cast-iron grate and a decorative queen-post roof truss with turned baluster struts.