Description

TANWORTH-IN-ARDEN

SP17SW DOCTOR'S HILL
652-1/2/129 (East side (off))
Leasowes Farmhouse

GV II

Farmhouse. Believed to be early C18 with possible earlier
origins and refronting and extension to left c1837. Brick with
colourwashed render to front facades, gabled Welsh slate roof
at front, plain-tiles at rear.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys; 4-window range, with 2 single-bay ranges
to rear and further single-storey extension with huge side
stack, probably constituting the original house with infill
under catslide roof. Central entrance: part-glazed door under
projecting open porch with slate roof and bargeboards.
To left of entrance a 3-light wooden mullion-and-transom
casement window, 2 similar windows to right. First floor has 4
3-light windows with glazing bars. Second floor has 4 thermal
windows with metal casements with glazing bars. Casement
windows to gables. 2 end and one off-centre left ridge stacks
with cogged cornices.
INTERIOR: beamed ceilings to right part at front. Rear range
has huge inglenook fireplace with bressumer beam and bread
oven.
All the listed buildings at Leasowes Farm form a group.

Listing NGR: SP1234170713

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26662449

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Recommended Books

• 
  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)