Description

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SZ 09 NW
11/8

COLEHILL
LEIGH ROAD
Leigh House

(Formerly listed as By-the-Way )

(Formerly listed under Hampreston)

18.3.55

II

House. Mainly early C19. Stucco walls to the front block, other walls of brickwork in Flemish Garden Wall bond. Low pitched hipped roof of pantiles to the front, older lower rear roofing of tiles, with hips and half-hips. A two storeyed building of older origin, renovated and forming two rear wings to a taller three storeyed front; symmetrical south elevation of three storeys three windows, sashes in reveals, with a tall round headed central first floor light, the rear part of the main block has second floor sashes, all other windows being casements. Doric porch of two columns and two pilasters, on a stone step, with an oval decorative fan light above coupled doors. Staircase within.

Note: the building was formerly Leigh House, listed in Hampreston parish. RCHM.

Listing NGR: SZ0313499979

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26609251

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)