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Colleton Hall

A Grade II Listed Building in Witheridge, Devon

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.935 / 50°56'5"N

Longitude: -3.6328 / 3°37'57"W

OS Eastings: 285364

OS Northings: 116326

OS Grid: SS853163

Mapcode National: GBR L9.PKHF

Mapcode Global: FRA 368M.Y96

Plus Code: 9C2RW9M8+XV

Entry Name: Colleton Hall

Listing Date: 14 October 1987

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1107308

English Heritage Legacy ID: 97466

ID on this website: 101107308

Location: North Devon, EX16

County: Devon

District: North Devon

Civil Parish: Witheridge

Traditional County: Devon

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Devon

Church of England Parish: Witheridge with Creacombe

Church of England Diocese: Exeter

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Description


WITHERIDGE
SS 81 NE
6/60 Colleton Hall
- II
Small country house in wooded setting. Early C19 Rubble core, stuccoed and
colourwashed, tall rendered stacks, 2 groups of 3, one set singly.
Plan and development: single room depth with 3 wings projecting onto the garden
front, to the extreme right of the front service rooms and added folly. Internal
plan of 2 principal reception rooms flanking a large entrance hall. Gothick style.
Exterior: 2 storeys, 1:1:1:2:3 windows, casements with glazing bars and marginal
lights, second bay from left in a projecting wing with coping, fourth bay in gabled
projecting wing, 2 point-arched windows on the ground floor, Y-tracery Bays to
each side of projecting wing, that to left canted, iron balconies set over. C20
casements to right. To the extreme right of the front a late C19 folly or garden
room in a loose medieval style with a conical roof, narrow semi-circular headed
openings, door opening with a plank door. Principal door opening to the rear
created in the mid C20, pair of half-glazed doors.
Interior with plaster Gothick vaulting with ribs and bosses to the entrance hall, 2
archways with pointed arch heads and moulded surrounds; this hall with a mid C20
staircase inserted in neo-Georgian style, at the same time the remainder of the
interior was altered and other neo-Georgian features were incorporated including
chimneypieces.


Listing NGR: SS8536416326

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