Caledonia Manor House

Caledonia Manor House is a timber-framed building, largely dating to the 16th century, with substantial alterations and extensions in the late 17th or 18th century and the 19th century. It is situated on Station Road in Churchdown and comprises two attached houses under single ownership.

The house has an eight-window front and is generally one room deep, with a projecting two-bay wing to the left. A single-storey wing extends from the front angle and again at the rear. The right return is tile-hung, featuring six-pane sash windows to the ground floor and twelve-pane sashes to the first floor, along with a two-light casement in the attic. The main facade is rendered, with three four-pane sash windows on the right and a five-panel door set one stone step up, above which is a rectangular overlight and a projecting hood supported on shaped brackets. To the left, there are three similar windows, a half-glazed door with two flush panels beneath, and an overlight. Above, there are eight windows matching those on the ground floor. The tiled roof is banded with alternating strips of plain and fish-scale tiles, and slate covers the single-storey front wing. An external brick chimney is against the left return, with two more to the rear. A single-storey wing continues the line of the front, featuring a four-pane sash window flanked by narrower windows, under a slated hipped roof. Behind this, a taller painted brick wing has two two-light casements to the first floor, with cambered brick arches above. Two hipped dormers with leaded two-light casements are present, along with a central brick chimney on the ridge. The rear of the left-hand wing has paired French doors and a sash window to the ground floor, and three sash windows to the first floor. Three hipped dormers mirror the front elevation.

Internally, the Manor House appears to have originally comprised a cross passage and three rooms. The open-well staircase retains its original turned balusters, moulded handrail, and closed string; some replacements are present. A room to the right of the entrance has raised 17th-century panelling, while a room to the left features painted fielded panelling and shutters, along with a spine beam and a blocked fireplace. Exposed timber framing is visible in the first-floor gables, and two 16th-century stone fireplaces are in the back wall. The roof structure includes collar trusses. The interior of the attached Caledonia house has not been inspected. A late 19th-century alteration occurred. The building was previously known as the Great House and was never a traditional manor house; local folklore claims that Sir Walter Raleigh stayed there.