Listed Building record TR 14 NW 52 - NORTH LEIGH

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1700 to 1999

Location

Grid reference TR 1327 4703 (point)
Map sheet TR14NW
District FOLKESTONE AND HYTHE, KENT
Civil Parish ELMSTED, SHEPWAY, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD
1/115 North Leigh 29.12.66 (Formerly listed as North Leigh Farm House)
II
Farmhouse. Probably early C18, with late C18 or early C19 facade and C20 additions. Possibly timber framed. Front elevation and right gable end in a form of Sussex bond. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys, on brick plinth. Plat band. Hipped roof. Brick ridge stack towards left end and gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 sashes in open boxes; one twenty-four pane to left of stack, and two to right, and one twelve-pane under stack. Segmental heads to similar ground-floor windows. Half-glazed door in C20 red brick porch with hipped plain tile roof under stack. Blocked doorway towards right end. Short two-storey C19 red brick parallel rear wing to right, with roof hipped to right. Rear lean-to to rest. Sun Insurance plaque. Interior: only partly inspected. Probably incorporates re-used timber. Room to left of stack ceiled. Cross beam a few feet to right of stack, with plain joists between it and stack, and mixed plain and hollow- chamfered joists to right of it. Brick fireplace with bressumer to right side of stack. C18 or C19 fireplace with high bressumer, to right end room.
Listing NGR: TR1178645546


English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • --- Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM