Coachhouse To South West Of Gatehouse At Colleton Manor

This coach house range dates to the 17th century, with alterations made around the late 19th century. It is situated to the south west of the gatehouse at Colleton Manor. The building is constructed of dressed local sedimentary stone, with a slate roof featuring stone coped gable ends and ball finials. Originally, the building's internal arrangement and function are unknown, but it was at least two storeys in part, as the original window on the left-hand side (east) was a doorway. A section of the south gable end wall was rebuilt in the late 19th or early 20th century, possibly after the building was truncated at this end, which created a large two-bay coach house with doorways in the gable and a loft above. A further coach house was built to the right of centre with a doorway on the east front. The north end retains an original small doorway at the front, now open to the roof.

The east front is asymmetrical and features a chamfered plinth. There is a 17th-century wooden window with bar stops and a carved flower above the bar, originally a loft doorway. A carriage house doorway, with a brick segmental arch and late 19th-century plank double doors, is situated to the right of centre. At the right-hand end of the front is a doorway with an ovolo-moulded wooden lintel and a late 19th-century plank door. The south gable has two large round-arch brick doorways and a round pitching eye above. The west, rear wall is blank except for a central buttress with weathered set-offs. The northwest end projects slightly, and the rear wall is now enclosed within a greenhouse.

Inside, there are later partition walls and a new floor. The roof is an unusual 8-bay 17th-century structure, with six of the original seven oak scissor-braced trusses remaining. The scissor braces are halved, lapped, and pegged to the principals, and mortise and tenoned at the apexes, all joints secured with long pegs. Each principal's foot is tenoned into a mortice in the wall plate, and the purlins are trenched into the backs of the principals. The roof structure is particularly rare for Devon.