Leigh House and Gatepiers
LEIGH HOUSE AND GATEPIERS, 18, WESTBURY LEIGH
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036318
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh House and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH HOUSE AND GATEPIERS, 18, WESTBURY LEIGH
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1036318
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- Leigh House and Gatepiers
- Statutory Address 1:
- LEIGH HOUSE AND GATEPIERS, 18, WESTBURY LEIGH
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LEIGH HOUSE AND GATEPIERS, 18, WESTBURY LEIGH
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Westbury
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 86462 50198
Details
WESTBURY
929/5/57B WESTBURY LEIGH 29-DEC-1950 (Northwest side) NO 18 LEIGH HOUSE AND GATE-PIERS
GV II* The building was formerly known as Victoria House between 1950 and the mid 1980s.Late C17 - early C18. 2 storeys and attic. Brick on projecting plinth with stone capping. Moulded stone string at 1st floor level. Moulded stone string eaves cornice. Chamfered stone quoins. Contemporary cast lead gutter over cornice with fretted edge. Hipped old tile roof with stone ridge and ball finials at corners. 2 hipped dormer sashes, tile hung cheeks. 5 windows on 1st floor in moulded stone architrave with arched heads, moulded springers and plain keys, under wide rubbed brick arches and with slightly projecting brick aprons. Sashes with glazing centrally divided. 4 rectangular windows on ground floor with stone architrave surrounds and glazed central door, altered early C19, with narrow side glazing, in wide moulded stone architrave, with scroll stone brackets, reeded and beaded front face, supporting moulded cornice hood and opposing scroll broken pediment with central fluted urn. Interior, altered. Left return has brick modillion band over ground floor. Victorian gatepiers to right with wide capping mouldings and a smaller single capping moulding to left.
Listing NGR: ST8646250198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 313179
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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