Listed Building: OLD LEIGH PLACE (1241849)
Grade | II* |
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Authority | |
Volume/Map/Item | 1418, 1, 116 |
Date assigned | 29 December 1966 |
Date last amended |
Description
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
External Links (0)
Sources (1)
- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
Location
Grid reference | TR 1316 4714 (point) |
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Map sheet | TR14NW |
County | KENT |
District | FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT |
Civil Parish | ELMSTED, SHEPWAY, KENT |
Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
Record last edited
Feb 6 2024 9:24AM