Leigh House and The Storks

Leigh House and The Storks, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EW

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081109
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: Leigh House and The Storks
Statutory Address:: Leigh House and The Storks, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EW

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1081109
Date first listed:: 21-Mar-1985
List Entry Name:: Leigh House and The Storks
Statutory Address 1:: Leigh House and The Storks, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EW

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 House and The Storks, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EW

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

County:: Worcestershire
District:: Wychavon (District Authority)
Parish:: Ombersley
National Grid Reference:: SO 84524 63566

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 March 2022 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

SO 8463 9/210

OMBERSLEY CP MAIN ROAD Leigh House and The Storks

(Formerly listed as WORCESTER ROAD (east side) Kelso and The Storks)

GV II

Pair of houses. Early to mid-C19. Brick with plain tiled roofs and kneeler brackets, gable verges and integral brick stacks at ends and at centre of main ridge with drip mould. Two storeys and attic with gabled dormers; symmetrical front of six bays with slight breaks to second and fifth (main entrance) bays. Tudor Gothic detailing.

Front elevation: windows and doors all have hoodmoulds with returns; ground and first floor windows are all glazing bar sashes; large gabled dormers above each bay have a two-course band set above and corbelled out from the main eaves level; each gable contains a round-lobed quatrefoil light; entrance doors are part-glazed.

Interior not inspected.

Above the first floor windows of the entrance bays is a Norwich Union fire insurance mark. The houses are of similar design and contemporary with Redmarley House (qv).

Listing NGR: SO8452463566

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Legacy System number:: 148106
Legacy System:: LBS

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