Old Leigh Place
OLD LEIGH PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241849
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Leigh Place
- Statutory Address:
- OLD LEIGH PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1241849
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Leigh Place
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD LEIGH PLACE
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:
- OLD LEIGH PLACE
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 13165 47144
Details
TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -
1/116 Old Leigh Place
29.12.66 II*
Farmhouse. C16. Timber framed, with painted brick infilling. Rendered brick to right gable end. Plain tile roof. 4 timber-framed bays. 2 storeys. Rendered plinth. Continuous jetty on solid-spandrel brackets, returned to left, and formerly to right, on moulded dragon post. Broadly-spaced studding with ogee tension braces. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Multiflue brick stack in front slope of roof, to right end of left-central bay. Irregular fenestration of 5 leaded casements; one two-light to left end bay, one two-light over door, one pair of two-light casements to right-central bay and one single-light to right end. Pegged cills to second, third and fifth from left. Pegged cills to ground-floor windows of left end and right- central bays. Ribbed door with renewed four-centred-arched head with hollow spandrels to left end of left-central bay. Single-storey painted brick addition with plain tile roof to rear to left. Two-storey rear addition to right. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Left end bay has broad close-set joists morticed for axial partition. Enclosed staircase rising parallel to rear wall of bay. Cross-passage to left end of left-central bay, with four-centred-arched doorheads towards centre of left partition wall, and plain staircase doorway. Brick stack in English bond backing on to cross-passage and virtually adjoining front wall of house. Cross beam to right side of stack. Chamfered axial beam and joists to right-central bay. Cross beam to right end of bay morticed for continuous partition with doorway towards front end of it. Shutter groove to blocked front window of left end bay.
Listing NGR: TR1316547144
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441086
- 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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