Cullompton Manor House

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Cullompton Manor House is situated at the corner of Tiverton Lane and Fore Street and is built in the Elizabethan style. Although it bears the date 1603 on a panel on the front, the original building was of sixteenth century construction, and was refurbished at a later date.

On a lead cistern head of a rainpipe, are the letters (L) S/WT (R) and the date 1718. This is the date of another reconstruction of the house. The original structure consisted only of the front part, in which there were three rooms and a passage on the ground floor, three rooms opening into each other on the floor above, and above again.

The newel staircase, of which only part remains, descended to the hall or kitchen. The north wing was built in 1718, and is of brick construction with a slate roof. There is a double shell porch on the east front of the older half-timbered building, with branches of olive and fruit on the soffitted ceiling. It rests on pillars supported by Doric pillars and panelled stilts. The lounge has the large oak panels of the Queen Anne period, and a moulded and beamed ceiling, but the interior has been considerably altered, as the house has been a hotel for some years. The name 'Manor House' was given by Mr J S Upcott in 1850.