Piers And Boundary Wall To Royal Castle Hotel

The piers and boundary wall to the Royal Castle Hotel are early and later 19th century structures located on Castle Hill in Lynton. They consist of granite piers and rubble or rendered rubble walls. The main retaining wall, made of rubble, runs up Castle Hill across the full width of the site. It features a section that angles towards the top and connects to a set-back gate pier on the left side.

Above a prominent roll-mould, the upper part of the wall is smoothly rendered and topped with large crenellations that have horizontal tops, with breaks that step down to follow the slope of the hill. To the left, there is an octagonal pier with an oversailing crenellated crown and a small blind lancet on the shaft, rising to approximately 2.5 meters in height. A similar pier, with its crown at the same level but a shorter shaft due to the rise in levels, is located to the left and stands about 1.5 meters from another small section of retaining wall. This wall, which is partly on the street and partly returns behind the pier, is also made of rubble and features crenellation similar to the main wall.

Near the right-hand end of the site, there is a third free-standing granite gate pier set back from the road at terrace level. This pier has a heavy pyramid cap on its octagonal shaft. The piers share material and design details with the porch of the hotel.