Filleigh House

Filleigh House is a large house largely dating to 1869, representing a remodelling of an earlier 19th-century building commissioned for E. Baillie (a datestone of 1869 bears his initials). Later alterations have also occurred. The house is constructed of whitewashed plastered stone with slate roofs, with hipped roofs to the main range and rendered stacks.

The plan encompasses a principal block, two rooms wide at the front, double in depth, with a side entrance on the northeast elevation leading to an entrance hall and stair hall with an open-well staircase behind. The two main rooms face the garden to the southeast. A rear wing, with a two-span roof and a lower roofline, served as the service wing. The house was originally entered on the southeast front with a central entrance to the stair hall via a passage, but the internal walls have been moved and the passage's width has been incorporated into the present main rooms.

The symmetrical, five-window garden (southeast) elevation features deep eaves with paired eaves brackets, a platband, and left and right pilasters with sunken panels. A blocked arch at the centre of the ground floor indicates a former entrance. Contemporary metal-framed first-floor windows have 19th-century sliding shutters below a moulded cornice, while the ground floor windows, likely housed within original embrasures, are 20th-century replacements. A wrought iron trellis verandah, extending the length of the front, has inverted ogee arches and a slightly projecting central bay.

The southwest elevation shows the three-bay side of the service wing to the left, and the four-bay return of the main block to the right, which rises to a pediment on the left. There are various sash windows, and two ground floor canted bays with tent roofs, likely early 20th-century additions. A bell turret sits centrally on the roof.

The three-bay northeast entrance elevation, two storeys to the left and right, rises to three storeys in the centre, with a coped, gabled central bay containing a shallow Tuscan porch with paired columns, pilasters, and an entablature. A half-glazed, two-leaf panelled front door is surmounted by a rectangular fanlight, with a 12-pane sash window above, having a moulded eared architrave; the second floor has a segmental headed sash with a moulded architrave. The right-hand bay contains a ground floor and first-floor six-pane sash with moulded eared architraves.

Internally, features from 1869 include an open-well staircase with turned balusters, contemporary doors, and black marble chimney-pieces. Filleigh House is one of a series of 19th-century villas located on the Exeter Road outside Chudleigh Town.