Summerhouse And Attached Retaining Wall And Terrace With Railings

This is a mid-19th century hotel, situated on Watersmeet Road in Lynmouth. The main range faces the street and features a gable on the left, which is slightly forward. A rear wing extends back, built against an excavated rock face, with a single-storey, later lean-to addition.

The building is two storeys high, with an attic and basement. Most windows are stone mullioned casements with transoms, featuring two lights. The street facade has a small window in the gable, above two casements with stopped drip-courses. At ground floor, there is a shallow, hipped-roof bay window with one window lacking a drip-course, and a glazed lean-to porch over the main entrance. A return gable includes a small window above a large one, a canted bay with a hipped roof, and, set back, a wing with a small gable, a window with a drip-course, a replacement window, and the lean-to extension. Decorative bargeboards adorn the gables, and a deep chimney stack is situated on the ridge, to the left of the main doorway. The left-hand return wall faces a narrow passageway with stone steps leading to number 20. The interior has not been inspected.

A painted rubble retaining wall, approximately one storey high, runs across the frontage, connecting to the frontage of number 12. This wall incorporates an inserted wall with a broad strip window, followed by three arches on piers with two small lights. Beyond the house front, the retaining wall slopes downwards, supported by square piers, leading to a paired tubular railing and a flight of stone steps. A further retaining wall, with plain coping and railing, is set behind the steps and curves on plan, abutting number 12. Simple iron railings in five bays, with standards and returns, extend across the house front, bordering a shallow terrace, while a similar railing runs along the section of set-back wall. This hotel is part of a series of hotels built in the first half of the 19th century and is included for its group value.