{"entry-date":"1972-02-14","start-date":"1972-02-14","end-date":"","entity":42148090,"name":"Babbacombe Cliff Hotel","dataset":"listed-building-outline","typology":"geography","reference":"390494","prefix":"listed-building-outline","organisation-entity":344,"geometry":"MULTIPOLYGON (((-3.511626 50.477993, -3.511714 50.478017, -3.511722 50.477999, -3.511747 50.477955, -3.511826 50.477969, -3.511877 50.47785, -3.5118 50.477836, -3.51181 50.477815, -3.511803 50.477814, -3.511816 50.477785, -3.511821 50.477786, -3.511863 50.477694, -3.511798 50.477682, -3.511794 50.47769, -3.51173 50.477679, -3.511717 50.477709, -3.511438 50.477661, -3.511414 50.477713, -3.511511 50.47773, -3.51149 50.477776, -3.511576 50.477794, -3.511572 50.47781, -3.511609 50.477818, -3.511618 50.477832, -3.511643 50.477837, -3.511665 50.477829, -3.511703 50.477837, -3.511701 50.477842, -3.511705 50.477843, -3.51166 50.477946, -3.511626 50.477993)))","point":"POINT (-3.511691 50.477807)","quality":"authoritative","notes":"Formerly known as: Cliffside Cottage Hotel BEACH ROAD. House, in use as holiday flats. 1878 by WE Nesfield; extended c1920s, some unfortunate late C20 alterations. Snecked local grey limestone rubble with sanstone dressings, some slate-hanging; natural scantle slate roof; stacks with moulded brick shafts and caps. Art and Crafts style. PLAN: Overall L-plan: main block facing north over the sea, west wing at right-angles with a carriageway through it at the north end. c1920s extension at east end of main block. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys and attic Earlier part of main block has 2-window front with a slate pentice at first-floor level and a moulded timber arched doorway. Single-storey addition to right. Canted slate-hung bay to left with a deep gable over with a 3-light attic window; 3-light window to right. The right return (front of the west wing) is slate-hung on the first floor with 2 gabled, 2-tier canted oriels to the left, the coving of the oriels pargetted, the windows glazed with ovolo-moulded mullioned windows with leaded panes, the first floor with transoms. Similar oriel to right, above the carriage. The right return of the wing has a first floor projecting timber look-out supported on deep timber brackets. INTERIOR: Includes an original stair; good tiling to the entrance lobby; pressed paper moulded ceiling in the first-floor room at the north end of the wing. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.862). Listing NGR: SX9283465308","listed-building":"1279510"}