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© Mr Patrick J. Stow
IoE Number:
87829
Location:
COLCOMBE CASTLE HOUSE,
COLYTON, EAST DEVON, DEVON
Photographer:
Mr Patrick J. Stow
Date Photographed:
08 September 2003
Date listed:
08 May 1967
Date of last amendment:
08 May 1967
Grade
II
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SY 29 SW COLYTON COLCOMBE
13/138
8.5.67 Colcombe Castle House
II
House. Circa C17 with later alterations. Stone rubble with quoins and rendered
front. Slate roof with gabled ends. Two stoeys. Two window range. Modern metal
frame casements replace former stone mullion windows. Central plank door with
modern gabled porch. Extended at rear to form deep plan and with further extension
with catslide roof. Interior heavy stopped chamfer ceiling beams.
On the site of and possibly incorporating some of the remains of Colcombe Castle one
of the seats of the Courtenays, Earls of Devon, and first built in late C13, by Hugh
de Courtenay, partly rebuilt by Henry Courtenay, Marquis of Exeter, but after his
execution in 1540 it was confiscated by the Crown. Returned to Edward Marquis of
Exeter who died in 1556. Bought by William Pole of Shute whose son William Pole the
historian and antiquarian completed the house and made Colcombe his residence.