Description

SHALDON

SX97SW NESS DRIVE, Shaldon
25-1/9/72 (East side)
30/06/49 The Ness House Hotel and attached
courtyard wall

II

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.
HISTORICAL 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).

Listing NGR: SX9385871983

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26559322

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