LEIGH PLACE

LEIGH PLACE, CHURCH ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1028747
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: LEIGH PLACE
Statutory Address:: LEIGH PLACE, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1028747
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:: LEIGH PLACE
Statutory Address 1:: LEIGH PLACE, CHURCH ROAD

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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Location

Statutory Address:: LEIGH PLACE, CHURCH ROAD

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Mole Valley (District Authority)
Parish:: Leigh
National Grid Reference:: TQ 22471 47287

Details

LEIGH C.P. CHURCH ROAD TQ 24NW 6/134 Leigh Place 11/11/66 GV II*

House. C15, built by the Ardene Family, remodelled and extended in C17 by Margaret Copeley, further extended in C18 and then part demolished and altered in Gothic style by Richard Caffeyn Dentz in 1810. Timber framed, clad in red brick with tiled roofs, including some courses of patterned tiles,and wooden lantern to right of centre under lead-covered, ogee-domed roof and scrolled weathervane finial. T-shaped plan with wing to right. Two storeys; large front ridge stack to left of centre and offset stack to front of right hand gable end. Part rendered plinth to ground floor with plat band over ground floor. Offset buttresses under stone spike and ball finials to left end, either side of entrance, to right of centre and on angles of right hand gable. Two bargeboarded gables to front with pendant spike finials. One 3-light, triangular- head, diamond-pane leaded casement window on first floor of each gable under cambered heads with 4, triangular-head, light window to ground floor right, 3-light window to left. Battlemented entrance bay breaking forward to left of centre with triangular arch over ground floor. C17 panelled oak door with scrolled carving and triangular transome light in strapwork surround to left of centre under arched, lead-covered hood with pendant spike finial and stop-chamfered angles to posts. Foiled carving to top with diamond panels in lintel ends. Right hand return front:- whitewashed, with rendered plinth, and roughcast above. Outer, 3- light, Gothic style windows on first floor, 2-light casement to centre; 3-light outer casements to ground floor below. Central half-glazed door in gabled trellis porch. Buttress to right and wooden turret with clock-face to centre of roof. Rear - Gable to left with angle buttresses and centre stack. Parallel range to right with C20 stack and mixed casement fenestration. Interior:- panelled rooms to ground floor right with ribbed ceilings. Thick frame exposed in lobby entry. Carved strapwork decoration on centre spine beam, triangular head panelling in ground floor rooms. Stone floor and deep brick fire- place with strapwork and lozenge-decorated lintel, palmette ends. Early C17 stair- case with scrolled and egg shaped balusters and sturdy strapwork-decorated newel post under sphere finial. Shallow 1/2 oval curved roof to first floor room with moulded wall plate and Strawberry Hill style panelling on walls. The house stands on a moated site and has associated Medieval Fishponds.

PEVSNER: BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND, SURREY (1971) p.342. V.C.H. (1911) Vol. III pp.210-11. SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS VOL. II (1893) pp. 141-184 (Plans).

Listing NGR: TQ2247147287

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 290248
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 210-211
Pevsner, N, Nairn, I Rev. by Cherry, The Buildings of England: Surrey, (1971), 342
'Surrey Archaeological Society Collections' in Surrey Archaeological Society Collections, , Vol. 2, (1893), 141-184

Legal

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