Rising Sun Hotel (Main Part)
RISING SUN HOTEL (MAIN PART), MARS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210184
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Rising Sun Hotel (Main Part)
- Statutory Address:
- RISING SUN HOTEL (MAIN PART), MARS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1210184
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Rising Sun Hotel (Main Part)
- Statutory Address 1:
- RISING SUN HOTEL (MAIN PART), MARS HILL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- RISING SUN HOTEL (MAIN PART), MARS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- North Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lynton and Lynmouth
- National Park:
- Exmoor
- National Grid Reference:
- SS7222349619
Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS7149 MARS HILL, Lynmouth
858-1/4/80 (West side)
19/07/50 Rising Sun Hotel (main part)
(Formerly Listed as:
LYNTON
MARS HILL
Rising Sun Hotel, York Cottage,
Cottage adjoining to left of York
Cottage)
GV II
3 houses in row, now hotel. Early to mid C18. Limewashed
rubble or rendered; thatched roofs to outer ranges, concrete
tile to middle unit; asbestos cement to house at lower level
and to rear roof slope of first house.
2 storeys. The first house, to the left, has 3-window front,
at first floor 2-light 6-pane casements to thin central
mullion, above replacement windows and a central C20 door
covered by a full-width thatched verandah on square posts. A
stack to each gable. Large flat-roofed extension.
Adjoining the last, at a lower level, is a house with 2-window
front; C20 windows and square rubble eaves stack to lower
level. To the right is the main range, with thatched roof and
4-window front. At first floor, set to slight eyebrows are
boarded gables to 2-light casements with margin panes and
leading. The ground floor has 3 sashes with leading, and a
large 5-light C20 casement with transom; two C20 doors, that
to right under a thatched hood on trellis cheeks. A stack to
the rear eaves, left, and to right gable end. The rear has
deep added wings in 2 positions.
INTERIORS: partly inspected. There are some narrow staircases
and various changes in level; the roofs not available for
inspection. Generally no items of special interest were
revealed.
This range, formerly 3 separate houses, is linked with 2
further properties and Shelley's Cottage (qqv) to the left, in
a continuous stepped row, climbing Mars Hill, and together
forming the Rising Sun Hotel.
Listing NGR: SS7222349619
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376530
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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