Description

WOODLEIGH
SX 74 NW
5/120 Wood Barton
26.1.67
- II
Large detached house. Some C16 fabric, but mainly restructed in C20. Rubble
or rendered rubble, concrete tile roofs. A long gabled single depth plan, with,
on the trance front, three 2-storey gabled wings, between which the roof swept
down; on the garden side is a wing, formerly stables, at the north end. Two
storeys; the entrance front has mainly C20 windows, some with concrete lintols,
but each of the gables has, at first floor, a granite C16 window in 2, 3, and
2-light to round heads under square label courses; that over porch has an iron
armature. Wide 4-centre arch with square drip courrse to decorative stops, in
granite, containing C20 pair glazed doors. Large brick stacks to ridge, and one
to ridge of right-hand projecting wings. Back has replacement sashes including
a tripartite sash. The house not inspected, but understood to be C20 replace-
ment. The house is on the site of a Cistercian Monastery or grange, from which
the 3-windows and doorway seem to be the only significant surviving elements.

Listing NGR: SX7390749730

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26401915

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