[2] Coleby has one village public house, the Tempest Arms which stands at the top of the road that leads up the hill from the valley.

[citation needed] Coleby Hall is a Grade II* listed country house which stands near the church in a park of around 50 acres (0.2 km2).

After the death of his father, William, the hall was inherited by Thomas Lister, MP (c.1658 – 8 February 1718) who was the great great-nephew of Sir William Lister of Rippingale,[5] and he extended the hall by adding the eastern gable in 1687,[6] On his death, it passed to his eldest daughter, Mary and thence in 1734 to her nephew, Thomas Scrope.

[6] It was later bought by the Fowkes family, and apart from being requisitioned by the military during the Second World War, remained in their possession until 1981, when it was sold to property developers.

[6] During the Second World War, the Ministry of Defence constructed an airfield at RAF Coleby Grange to the east of the village on open heathland, immediately west of the A15 road.

Today the airfield is in private hands and used for agriculture with only the Control Tower, which still stands although in a ruined state, as a visible sign of the station's existence.