Leigh House Farmhouse

Leigh House Farmhouse, Bridgnorth Road, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5LB

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230626
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1963
List Entry Name:: Leigh House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: Leigh House Farmhouse, Bridgnorth Road, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5LB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1230626
Date first listed:: 27-Jun-1963
List Entry Name:: Leigh House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: Leigh House Farmhouse, Bridgnorth Road, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5LB

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: Leigh House Farmhouse, Bridgnorth Road, Enville, Stourbridge, DY7 5LB

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Staffordshire
District:: South Staffordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Enville
National Grid Reference:: SO 81709 86161

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 11/02/2020

SO 88 NW 8/21

ENVILLE C.P. BRIDGNORTH ROAD (south side) Leigh House Farmhouse

[Formerly listed under BRIDGENORTH ROAD (south side)]

27.6.63

II

House latterly farmhouse. Late C17 main house attached to an earlier possibly C16 range remodelled in the early C18. Later extensions, probably early C19. Red brick (English garden wall bond); plain tile roofs; brick lateral and external end stacks. Irregular plan; principal alignment north-east/south-west, early range to the south-west facing south-east, roughly L-shaped main house to the north-east facing north-west; staircase wing of main house and two extension wings to the early range all lie to the north-west/south-east alignment.

South-east front. Early range set back to left, late C17 main house to right. Early range. One storey and attic with storey band; two bays, C19 casements, central window at mezzanine level, gabled attic dormers, raised roof verge to left and end stack with lozenge section shafts.

Main house. Two storeys and attic with storey bands, lateral stack to right, central pilaster buttress, and straight joint in the brickwork towards the left; late C19 panelled door to right, three gabled dormers containing casements and blocked window to first floor left with gauged head, otherwise blind. Left hand gable has two glazing bar sashes to ground and first floor with gauged brick heads, and C20 attic casements with gauged head and brick dripstone.

North-west front. Three gabled wings set back progressively from the right, recessed bay of main house to the left with gauged head glazing bar sashes. Late C17 left hand staircase wing with C20 panelled door flanked by a pair of small casements with segmental heads, irregularly placed glazing bar casements with three-centred heads; right hand wing has a massive end stack; C20 glazed porch in angle between this and centre wing.

Interior. Late C17 open well staircase with barley sugar twist balusters and moulded hand rail. In the early range is an early C18 short straight staircase with turned balusters; several panelled window shutters.

Listing NGR: SO8170986161

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 405602
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Stafford, (1984), 101-3

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.