Colleton Manor

Heritage listing

Details CHULMLEIGH SS 61 SE 5/8 Colleton Manor 9.6.52 GV I House. Medieval origin, remodelled or rebuilt probably in 1612 by Humphrey Bury, altered in circa late C17 or early C18 and again in late C19 and or early C20. Local sedimentary stone dressed and brought to course and with granite dressings. Slate roof with granite coped gable ends with moulded caps and ball finials at the apexes. Gable end, axial and lateral stacks with dressed stone shafts with moulded caps. Plan and development: The existing house is largely the result of a major remodelling if not an entire rebuilding by Humphrey Bury in 1612. The only recognisable features of the Medieval house (apart from the chapel/gate house qv) are the cellar windows at the lower west end, the hall's small rear window and the former passage rear doorway, none of which are certainly insitu. The present house has a large hall at the right hand (east) end heated from a lateral fireplace at the back; the hall is unusually long and narrow which suggests it is on the site of the Medieval house. The screens passage at the left (west) end of the hall has a 2 storey porch at the front. The lower left side partition of the passage was removed to form a wide entrance hall probably is about the late C17 or early C18 and probably coeval with the building of the stair tower behind the entrance hall which rises to a spacious landing on the first floor and up to attics in the roof qv. The stair tower is in the angle with the wide cross-wing at the lower left end. The cross-wing has a cellar, a parlour on the ground floor heated from a lateral stack on the left side, two heated bedchambers above and an attic in the roof. The common rafter and tie-beam room structure provides two large attic spaces, one over the cross- wing and the other

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.