Collaven Manor

Heritage listing

Details SOURTON SX 58 NW 12/113 Collaven Manor GV II Small manor house. Early C17, possibly 1602, with additions of 1675, early C18, late C18 or early C19, circa mid-C19 and early C20. Granite rubble walls. Gable ended slate roof, hipped roof to rear early C20 block. 4 chimney stacks : rendered brick shaft on stone base at left gable end; rendered brick axial stack to main range; early C18 brick stack with blind arch on each side, axial to main range and wing, C20 brick stack at front gable.end of wing. Plan: Originally 3-room and through passage plan, lower end to the left. All 3 rooms likely to have been heated, the hall by an axial stack backing onto the passage, the lower and inner rooms heated by gable end stacks. In 1675 a 2- storeyed porch was added at the front of the passage. In the early C18 a wing was added at the front of the inner room heated by a gable end stack, probably for use as a parlour. In the later C18 or early C19 a wing was built behind the hall probably to provide extra service rooms. In the circa mid C19 an adjoining outshut was built to the rear of the inner room. In Edwardian times a large drawing room was added parallel to the lower end at the back. 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front with early C18 wing projecting from front of right-hand end and gabled 2-storeyed porch to left of centre which has 2-light chamfered granite mullion window to first floor. Otherwise the windows are all 2 and 3-light C20 casements with glazing bars. The hall window to the right of the porch retains its granite lintel and jambs although its mullions have been removed. The window to its right also retains its granite jambs with a granite hoodmould above which has a 4-petal flower carved in its left-hand label. The right-hand end of the hood-mould has been over

From the Historic England List Entry under OGL v3.