Chelston Manor Hotel

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SX9063 OLD MILL ROAD, Chelston 885-1/17/337 (East side) 20/11/52 Chelston Manor Hotel

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Shown on OS map as Chelston Manor. House, in use as hotel. Late C16/early C17 with extensive C19 alterations, said to have been the dower house to Cockington Court (old list description) and owned by the Mallock family in the C19. Plastered; slate roof, gabled at ends; stacks with octagonal rendered shafts with projecting cornices. PLAN: Single-depth main block 2 rooms wide with a central entrance; rear left wing at right-angles; rear right additions and rear block parallel to main range arranged round rear courtyard. EXTERIOR: 3-storey main block. Symmetrical 5-window front with regular fenestration plus one bay to the outshut at the left end. Early C19 central gabled porch with a coped gable with kneelers; Tudor-arched doorway with hoodmould; small one-light windows in returns. Ground and first-floor windows with hoodmoulds, glazed with high-transomed casements with hollow-chamfered frames with square leaded panes with some original C17 window furniture surviving. 5 smaller first-floor windows, also with hoodmoulds, glazed with casements with square leaded panes. Front lateral stacks at either end of main range with paired shafts. 2-storey block at left end with lean-to roof, glazed with similar high transomed windows. Right return of main range has a shallow 3-storey projecting bay. INTERIOR: Some early C19 features include plasterwork and 6-panel doors; early C18 stair with turned balusters and a flat handrail. (Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: P.865).

Listing NGR: SX9028563751