Details
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
SS74NW B3234, Lynbridge
858-1/2/67 (East side)
19/07/50 Ye Olde Cottage Inne
(Formerly Listed as:
LYNTON
LYNBRIDGE
Ye Olde Cottage Inne)
II
Inn, now public house. Early C19, C20 additions and
modifications. Rendered, some slatehanging, slate roof. The
main range, facing the old road and backing on the river, is
near symmetrical, with a pavilion projecting forward at the
left (N); the back, extensively damaged in the 1952 flood,
includes a steel structure, and has an extra storey at the
lower level, resulting from the steep slope across the site.
2 storeys, attic and basement; 1+4-window range. 2-light
cast-iron casements with mullion, and diamond panes, in
4-centred heads with drip-courses to corbel stops. To the left
the set-forward pavilion has a central gable over a lancet
above a wide opening with 4-centred head and 4-light casement
with cast-iron detail with panel below, probably replacing a
former carriage opening; on the return to the right is a
2-light casement.
The principal range has 2 small gabled dormers with 2-light
casements set high on the roof slope, with a wide open central
gable over a 2-light. At first floor are 1:1:2 two-light
casements, above two 2-light, with a third window modified as
a door; under the central gable is a wide 4-centred opening
with a pair of panelled doors with side panels and overlights
with diamond panes. There are square pilasters at the ends and
to the centre unit, here slightly stepped forward, and with a
continuous eaves mould under a deep projecting soffit.
Decorative scalloped barge-boards, including the dormers. The
drip-course to the window in the gable is carried round and
down to the cill, under which is an elliptical name-board with
moulded edge. Each gable has a slate-hung stack, including a
slate-covered capping.
To the right of the main range is a painted rubble screen
wall, stepped at its outer end, with a wide 4-centred opening
over a window and door. The right gable is slate-hung, with
scalloped barge-board, with a glazed porch/conservatory at
first-floor level giving to a flat-roofed extension, which is
carried on steel stanchions over an open service area.
The left return includes a keyhole-shaped light with opening
diagonally set casement above a broad 4-centred opening with
double doors and a small light, and to the left, in a
flat-roofed section are three 2-light casements as to the main
front, but without drip-courses.
The river front includes a wide flat-roofed dormer with 4
windows to the rear slope of the main range, and extensive
flat-roofed additions with large multi-pane steel casements at
two levels, above a partly open basement area.
INTERIOR: partly inspected, has been much modified. At the
basement level are some thick rubble walls and an arched
opening with early plank doors, possibly remnants of an
earlier building on the site, and in one area is a ship's mast
used as a spine beam.
Because of a slight realignment in the road, with a consequent
raising of its level, the building lies below the modern road,
with its upper floor only visible. The front remains as a good
example of the Picturesque cottage ornee style, with
diamond-paned cast-iron windows characteristic of this area in
the early C19; they were reputedly taken from the original
Combe Park Hotel (qv).
Listing NGR: SS7198548569
