Coryton House
CORYTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104805
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Coryton House
- Statutory Address:
- CORYTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1104805
- Date first listed:
- 07-Nov-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Coryton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CORYTON HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CORYTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Coryton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX4552683565
Details
SX 48 SE
7/59
CORYTON
CORYTON
Coryton House
GV
II
House, formerly rectory. 1836 built for Richard Newman and partly financed by Thomas
Newman of Manhead. Dressed stone brought to course with ashlar quoins and dressings;
slate roofs, gabled at ends; tall rendered paired shafts in stone stacks. A
"handsome residence in the Elizabethan style" (White, 1890). Irregular plan under
steeply pitched 2-span roof, the rear (east) span projecting to the south. Circa
1940s single storey addition to the north side and porch added to the west front. 2
storeys and attic. 3-bay west front symmetrical and Georgian in character. Tudor in
detail. Slightly advanced central gable bay 1836 moulded stone doorway intact behind
1940s porch with parapet. 3-light stone mullioned window above doorway has leaded
panes, 1-light casement in stone architrave in gable, which is coped with kneelers.
To left and right of the gabled bay large projecting stone stacks with set offs, the
chimneys crowned by paired diagonally set shafts with moulded cornices. Some
ornamental chimney pots survive. The porch and the 1940s addition at the left also
have stone mullioned windows with leaded panes in keeping with the 1836 stone
mullioned windows throughout. At the rear 3 shafts at first floor level are
corbelled out.
Interior: 1836 fittings intact throughout : stair, doors, cornices and fireplaces,
including fireplace with Gothic detail in the spandrels. 1 fireplace to ground
floor room front left replaced.
The Newman family (q.v. parish church) purchased the Coryton estate in 1809 and most
of the parish is still in their possession.
Listing NGR: SX4552683565
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 92305
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Whites Directory in History Gazetteer and Directory of Devonshire, (1890)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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