Croft House
CROFT HOUSE, LYDIATE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282801
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Croft House
- Statutory Address:
- CROFT HOUSE, LYDIATE LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1282801
- Date first listed:
- 09-Jun-1995
- List Entry Name:
- Croft House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CROFT HOUSE, LYDIATE LANE
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:
- CROFT HOUSE, LYDIATE LANE
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:
- SS 71901 49334
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26/06/2014
SS7149
858-1/4/32
LYNTON AND LYNMOUTH
LYNTON
LYDIATE LANE (South side)
Croft House
(Formerly listed as Sylvia House Hotel)
GV
II
Shown on OS map as The Croft. Hotel. Mid C19. Rendered, slate roof. Set back from the street, and on a high semi-basement, in a row. 2 storeys, attic and basement; 3-window front. A small central raking dormer with 4-light sash is flanked by wider dormers with paired 4-pane lights and blank side panels. Below are 12-pane sashes in plain reveals, and a central door under an arch with plain tympanum, covered by a large gabled porch with 4 lights each side and one light each side of the outer door, on 7 steep steps. The basement has small lights with cambered heads. There are plain end pilasters, and gable stacks. The rear has 2 wide 3-light dormers with 4-pane sashes (one of these replaced with a slate-hung panel). At first floor are three 12-pane sashes, and a small gabled projecting wing between windows 1 and 2.
INTERIOR not inspected, but likely to retain original features.
Listing NGR: SS7190149334
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 376512
- 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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