Colcombe Castle House is a Grade II listed building in the East Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1967. House. 1 related planning application.
Colcombe Castle House
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-forge-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Devon
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1967
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SY 29 SW 13/138
COLYTON COLCOMBE Colcombe Castle House
8.5.67
II House. Circa C17 with later alterations. Stone rubble with quoins and rendered front. Slate roof with gabled ends. Two storeys. Two window range. Modern metal frame casements replace former stone mullion windows. Central plank door with modern gabled porch. Extended at rear to form deep plan and with further extension with catslide roof.
Interior: heavy stopped chamfer ceiling beams.
On the site of and possibly incorporating some of the remains of Colcombe Castle one of the seats of the Courtenays, Earls of Devon, and first built in late C13, by Hugh de Courtenay, partly rebuilt by Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, but after his execution in 1540 it was confiscated by the Crown. Returned to Edward Marquis of Exeter who died in 1556. Bought by William Pole of Shute whose son William Pole the historian and antiquarian completed the house and made Colcombe his residence.
Listing NGR: SY2475094815
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