Kilbury Manor

Heritage listing

Details BUCKFASTLEIGH SX76NW COLSTON ROAD 1011-1/1/15 (North East side) 06/01/83 Kilbury Manor (Formerly Listed as: COLSTON ROAD Kilbury Manor House, outbuilding adjoining to S & stables adjoining to W) GV II House. Probably C17 in origin but altered in the early C18. Roughcast local stone rubble; asbestos slate roof; stacks with rendered shafts, right end stack with stone rubble shaft and C17 cap. Plan: single-depth south-facing main range, 3 rooms wide, left-hand room heated by rear left stack, right-hand rooms heated by axial and right end stacks, entrance to left of centre facing stair. The accommodation has been extended into part of a former outbuilding in a wing at right-angles to the front right (qv cartshed range). Stable block at left end of main range now a holiday cottage (qv). EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front with 6-panel front door, upper panels glazed. 2 ground-floor and 2 first-floor 2-light casements, 10 panes per light, 15-pane fixed window to first floor centre. Rear elevation of main block has sash windows. Stable block at left end includes mounting block. Front right wing has C20 lean-to porch into passage formerly dividing domestic and agricultural ranges. Domestic part of wing has 2-window front with casement windows. INTERIOR: main range has waney cross beams (plastered over) to middle room, small open fireplace. Left-hand room, with higher ceiling than others, has 6-panel door and angle fireplace, chimneypiece missing. Right-hand room has small fireplace and axial ceiling beam. Some 2-panel early C18 doors upstairs. Feet of principal rafters not visible in first-floor rooms. Listing NGR: SX7500565772 Legacy The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. Legacy System number: 392248 Legacy System: LBS

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.