Coln Manor

Coln Manor is a large manor house dating to the mid-16th century, with significant additions from the early to mid-17th century, around 1700, and again in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of random rubble limestone, mainly with a roughcast rendering, and features ashlar chimneys and a stone slate roof. It has a two-storey and attic layout, arranged in an L-shaped plan with an east cross wing.

The north front exhibits the earliest part of the house in the centre, marked by two sets of diagonal ridge-mounted chimney shafts indicating the original ends. The front is defined by parapets, with a central gabled two-storey porch having tall ashlar pilaster buttresses topped with ball finials. A moulded round arched doorway is set beneath an entablature flanked by Tuscan pilasters, with imposts and a keystone. A cornice above the entablature rises over an armorial shield. Above the doorway is a three-light cavetto mullioned casement with a hoodmould that runs continuously between the buttresses. A six-light wide mullioned and transomed casement is located to the right of the porch, while a cross-window is on the left. The upper floor has a 2-light window to the left and a 3-light window to the right, all with hoodmoulds. A projecting gable end belonging to the east cross wing features a gable-mounted chimney and a single recessed three-light cavetto mullioned casement window on the upper floor and in the attic. A flush gable on the right is part of the 17th-century enlargement and has single-window fenestration below.

The east front of the north wing, dating to around 1700, has three gables and a three-window arrangement, with four-light windows on the ground floor and three-light windows on the upper floor, all beneath a continuous hoodmould. Each gable has a separate two-light window. A central ridge-mounted chimney has four linked shafts and a moulded cap. A late 19th-century two-storey service addition partially obscures the north end of this wing; it features mullioned and transomed fenestration. The east elevation of the east cross wing has four gables and a scattered, mixed fenestration, much of which has been restored.

The south side shows a confusing mix of gables and additions. A tall, narrow, blank gabled projection to the rear of the original part of the house was likely a stair turret, but ceased to serve that function during 18th-century alterations. A larger gable is part of the 17th-century enlargement, while a rendered projection at the southwest corner is part of the late 19th-century alterations.

The interior was altered in the 18th and late 19th centuries. An ice house and a dovecote are located to the north of the manor house.