Description

LEIGHFIELD
SK 80 SW
Leigh Lodge (previously
listed as Leighfield Lodge)
3/126

14.6.54
II

Large house, late C16 but probably incorporating earlier fragments. Coursed
squared rubble with various ashlar dressings, including plinth and string courses.
Stone tiled roof. 2 storeys and attics, a large double-pile plan with projecting
small gabled wings to east and west forming a large symmetrical block. Entrance
front faces east, and has a full height coped gabled porch in the centre with
4-centred arch outer door, and a 3-light flat chamfered mullion window to each
floor above. At first floor level, there is a carved shield, with the arms either
of the Harington or of the Noel family. The inner doorway is also 4-centred
but ornately roll-moulded. A 3-light flat chamfered mullioned window either
side of the porch, on each floor. The west front contains a central full height
coped cabled projection housing a staircase. On its north face is a small doorway
which is probably a survival from an earlier building, and has a 4-centred arch
with deeply cut roll moulding that dies into a flat chamfer lower down. The
arch is contained in an ill-matched squared head. Various flat chamfered mullions
in the gable, and a bell case on the north wall. Left of the gable 2 windows
to ground floor, one of three lights and the other of four with a king mullion.
The right hand bay is blank but for a moulded string course at first floor level,
which continues around the house. South elevation has paired gable of the double
pile, with tall 3-light mullioned windows to each floor and stone stacks in the
valley. Rear elevation contains brick arch doorway to right and adjoining late
C19 dairy, brick with hipped tiled roof and long windows with chamfered wood
mullions. 2 gable windows above.

Listing NGR: SK8282804011

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26510263

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Recommended Books

• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990