Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26504120

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Recommended Books

• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback