As well as inheriting his brother's parliamentary seat, the rotten borough of Callington, he succeeded to the family estate of Newton Ferrers.

[3] The direct Coryton line died out in the 18th century and in the 1880s the house was restored by Sir Digby Collins, who served as High Sheriff of Cornwall in 1887.

[4] One of the earliest in Cornwall to be built to a Classical design, Coryton's unknown architect adopted a Restoration style H-plan, with small adjoining wings.

[2] The main interior rooms are laid out on a piano nobile, with the saloon occupying the three central bays of the south front.

These include a range of ancillary buildings; the stables,[11] a barn,[12] a bakehouse,[13] a garage[14] and a well-house;[15] a further set of garden walls to the north-east;[16] and three further statues on the terraces.