North Leigh House
North Leigh House, North Leigh, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6BX
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241847
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- North Leigh House
- Statutory Address:
- North Leigh House, North Leigh, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6BX
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241847
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- North Leigh House
- Statutory Address 1:
- North Leigh House, North Leigh, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6BX
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:
- North Leigh House, North Leigh, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, CT4 6BX
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elmsted
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 13270 47032
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13/08/2020
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ELMSTEAD
North Leigh
North Leigh House
(Formerly listed as North Leigh, ELMSTEAD, previously listed as North Leigh Farm House)
29.12.66
II
Farmhouse. Probably early C18, with late C18 or early C19 facade and C20 additions. Possibly timber framed. Front elevation and right gable end in a form of Sussex bond. Plain tile roof. Two storeys, on brick plinth. Plat band. Hipped roof. Brick ridge stack towards left end and gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of four sashes in open boxes; one twenty-four pane to left of stack, and two to right, and one twelve-pane under stack. Segmental heads to similar ground-floor windows. Half-glazed door in C20 red brick porch with hipped plain tile roof under stack. Blocked doorway towards right end. Short two-storey C19 red brick parallel rear wing to right, with roof hipped to right. Rear lean-to to rest. Sun Insurance plaque.
Interior: only partly inspected. Probably incorporates re-used timber. Room to left of stack ceiled. Cross beam a few feet to right of stack, with plain joists between it and stack, and mixed plain and hollow-chamfered joists to right of it. Brick fireplace with bressumer to right side of stack. C18 or C19 fireplace with high bressumer, to right end room.
Listing NGR: TR1178645546
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441084
- 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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