LEIGH COURT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060330
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: LEIGH COURT
Statutory Address:: LEIGH COURT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060330
Date first listed:: 25-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: LEIGH COURT
Statutory Address 1:: LEIGH COURT

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 COURT

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Pitminster
National Grid Reference:: ST 19976 18783

Details

0 PITMINSTER CP ST11NE ANGERSLEIGH 9/94 Leigh Court 25.2.55 GV II Rectory, now dwelling. Circa 1837. Render over rubble, shallow pitch hipped slate roof, boxed eaves, renewed moulded cornice, roughcast stacks flanking central bay and rising on returns. Double pile facing west, service wing set back to north-east. Two storeys, 2:1:2 bays, centre bay breaks forward slightly with pedimented top projecting through eaves,pilaster quoins, 12-pane sashes with moulded architraves lugged on first floor with sills on console brackets, ground floor console brackets to projecting lintels, central projecting, canted Ionic porch, curved entrance facade wall with blind niches and pilaster responds flanking panelled door, originally 2-leaf, with rectangular leaded light. Right return (south front) 1:3:1 bays with central full height projecting canted bay, 12-pane sashes first floor, ground floor left inserted C20 French windows, central window altered C20, end bay right flat roofed hexagonal bay with many paned lights. Interior: the main feature of interest is the full height stair case hall with a screen of Ionic columns and entablature on 3 sides at ground floor level, Corinthian column screen to first floor gallery, and an unusual wrought iron balustrade of serpents and C scrolls to cantilever stone stair; conservatory opening off hall on east front. The house is reputed to have been built by the rector, the Rev Henry Tippetts Tucker, a fire having destroyed the earlier rectory and manor house circa 1837. (Anon, Parish and Parish Church of St Michael, Angersleigh, no date;Photoqraph in NMR).

Listing NGR: ST1997618783

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 271041
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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St Michaels Church Angersleigh Church Guide

Legal

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