Orchard House and Attached Front Boundary Wall is a Grade II listed building in the Exmoor National Park local planning authority area, England. Hotel.
Orchard House and Attached Front Boundary Wall
- WRENN ID
- low-remnant-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Exmoor National Park
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- Orchard House and Attached Front Boundary Wall, 12, Watersmeet Road, Lynton and Lynmouth, North Devon
- OS grid reference
- SS 724 493
- Coordinates
- 51.22879, -3.82776
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Orchard House is a hotel built in the early to mid 19th century, featuring a rendered exterior and a slate roof. The building has an L-shaped layout, with the gable of the longer wing facing the street. A second gabled range is positioned parallel and slightly back to the left, with the entrance located in the internal angle. The structure is set against an excavated rock at the back and consists of two storeys, an attic, and a part basement.
All windows are wooden casements with mullions and transoms, primarily featuring horizontal bars, although four windows have small-pane glazing. On the street side, the left wing includes a small two-light window above a three-light window, and a small-pane two-light window on the ground floor. This wing also has two arched openings with doors leading to the basement level. The roof here has unequal pitches and may have been raised by one floor.
The main gable displays decorative barge-boarding and has two-light casements at each level, with the ground floor window extending down to floor level. The return face features two two-light windows with small panes above a one-storey bay with a hipped roof. In the corner, there is an octagonal porch with a 20th-century door on the splayed face. The narrow returned wing has a hipped end over a canted corner, with a two-light window above a similar window at ground level. There is a valley stack and an additional eaves stack at the rear of the back wing.
The property includes a front boundary wall made of painted rubble, approximately 1.5 meters high, with a small iron gate at the right-hand end. Nine steps lead up to the slightly raised level where the house is situated. Orchard House is part of a series of 19th-century hotels on this street and is included for its group value.
Local climate
Orchard House and Attached Front Boundary Wall sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,180 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 93% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 1995
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