Collatons

Collatons is a large house built around 1790 and enlarged between 1830 and 1840. It features plastered cob on rubble footings, with rubble stacks and plastered chimney shafts. The original slate roofs are now covered with a patent coating. The main block, which faces south, is from the later construction and has a double-depth plan with front and back rooms on either side of a central entrance hall and rear staircase. There are end stacks, and at the rear, the remains of the earlier house consist of two rooms wide with a central cross passage, now serving as a service block.

The house is two storeys tall and exhibits a Regency style with a symmetrical three-window front. The central doorway has a replacement partly-glazed door, original panelled reveals, and a flat-roofed timber porch supported by Tuscan columns and a moulded entablature, which features a cornice interrupted by shallow flutings. This porch is elevated on original limestone steps that have low granite side walls. The ground floor windows are large-pane replacement sashes from the 20th century, while the first floor retains original sashes, with outer windows having 16 panes and the central window having 12 panes. All windows have timber architraves, and those on the ground floor are eared. The front wall is accented with stucco quoins at the corners, and the deep eaves cornice is supported by slender shaped brackets, with the roof hipped at each end.

Each end wall mirrors this style and is two windows wide, with the front windows being blind. The rear block's windows are mostly from the 20th century, featuring a symmetrical three-window facade on the north side, with a central tall round-headed sash that is now a 20th-century replacement with glazing bars. The ground floor has tripartite sashes with glazing bars on either side of a central 19th-century plank door. The same deep eaves cornice extends around the rear block, and the roof consists of two pyramids topped with sandstone ball finials. Inside, much original plasterwork and joinery remain, including a geometric staircase with stick balusters, a mahogany handrail, a scrolled wreath, and a curtail step.