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Summary

Early 19th century house, now a hotel, altered mid 19th century with late 19th century wing to the right. Attached to the front right corner is a high painted rubblestone wall fronting the right wing and forming a courtyard.

Location

Protected Status

• Listed Building (II) 1269196: THE NESS HOUSE HOTEL AND ATTACHED COURTYARD WALL

Other References/Statuses: none recorded

Monument Type(s) and Dates

• HOUSE (XIX - 1801 AD to 1900 AD (Between))
• HOTEL (XX - 1901 AD to 2000 AD (Between))

Full description

Ordnance Survey, 1904 - 1906, Second Edition Ordnance Survey 25 inch Map (Cartographic). SDV325644.

'The Ness' shown.

Passmore, M. + Passmore, A., 2011, Coastal Emergency Battery Shaldon, 3 (Leaflet). SDV351973.

The Georgian Ness House (now a hotel) was requisitioned for use as the battery office and also provided accommodation and messing facilities.

Ordnance Survey, 2013, MasterMap (Cartographic). SDV350786.

English Heritage, 2013, National Heritage List for England (National Heritage List for England). SDV350785.

Formerly known as: Ness House Ness Drive Shaldon Teignmouth. House, now a hotel. Early C19, altered mid C19 with late C19 wing to the right. Painted stucco, hipped slate roof with rendered stacks to front and rear left. Double-depth plan with a long 2-storey set-back right wing with ridge stacks. Exterior: 2 storeys; 3-window range. Wide overhanging eaves form a 2-storey verandah supported at each stage by cast-iron columns. The 1st-floor level has semi-elliptical timber trellised arches and railings between the columns and 6/6-pane sash windows; the ground floor is open. The 6-panel door is set in a reeded doorcase with plain blocks to the upper corners. The porch now glazed, has similar trellissing to the balcony. To the ground-floor are c1850 French windows with margin panes and Gothic glazing to the overlights. The left (garden) return is similar with plate-glass French windows. Interior: ground-floor rooms have panelled shutters with raised moulding with inverted corners, similar moulding to double doors between the left-hand rooms set in a reeded architrave with plain blocks to the upper corners, and c1850 decorative cornices. Subsidiary features: attached to the front right corner is a high painted rubblestone wall fronting the right wing and forming a courtyard. Hisorical note: this was the residence of Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, Lord of the Manor. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N & Cherry B: Devon: London: 1989-: 801; Kelly's Directory 1902).

Sources / Further Reading

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