Building record MDO26362 - Colway Manor House, Colway Lane, Lyme Regis

Colway Manor House was entirely rebuilt 1921 but incorporates the early 17th century stone entrance to the former house. A barn north of the house is of 17th century origin. <2>

Known as Colway Manor according to an inscription on the gate. The exterior appears to be completely modern apart from stone entrance referred to above, and it could not be ascertained if the present house is built upon the site of the former manor house. The barn, at SY 33769302, has walls of stone and cob, and an apparently original timber-framed roof. <3>


Coleheoh' (Colway) assessed as a 3-hide estate held by Glastonbury in 1086 with associated saltworkings. `It is tempting to see the four Lyme estates, of which Colway was one, as subdivisions of one large salt-producing Roman estate, represented by the villa at Holcombe'. (SY 39 SW 2). Description of the hercology of Lyme. <4>

<1> Ordnance Survey, 1923-33, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch three (Map). SDO11595.

(SY 33769299) Colway Manor House (NR) (Remains of) (NAT)

<2> Royal Commission on Historical Monuments England, 1952, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume I (West), 149 (Monograph). SDO97.

<3> Swatridge, G C, Various, Field Investigators Comments GCS, F1 GCS 11-FEB-55 (Unpublished document). SWX1169.

<4> Pearce, Susan (ed), 1982, The early church in Western Britain and Ireland, 111-2, fig 88-9 (Monograph). SWX1026.

<5> National Record of the Historic Environment, 449792 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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