Listing
Search the List

What is Listing?

Listing Guidance

Apply for Listing

Missing Pieces Project

Blue Plaque Scheme
Listing

Find out about listed buildings and other protected sites, and search the National Heritage List for England (NHLE).

Find out about listing

Terracotta tiles on the roof of Saintoft Lodge, Newton-on-Rawcliffe, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Grade II listed © Historic England Archive DP371715
Advice
Climate Change

Heritage at Risk

Your Home

Technical Guidance

Planning

Caring for Heritage

Constructive Conservation
Advice

See our extensive range of expert advice to help you care for and protect historic places.

Get our advice

A contractor cutting bricks for the wall of the partially-restored wild and natural walled garden at Warley Place, Brentwood. Explore our technical advice section © Historic England Archive DP313199
Research
Our Research Strategy and Agenda

Research Governance

Latest Research

Research Methods

Current Research

Research Results

Support & Collaboration

Inclusive Heritage

Heritage Counts
Research

Discover and use our high-quality applied research to support the protection and management of the historic environment.

Discover our research

Archaeologist Dr David Neal discussing his illustration of the mosaic being excavated at Rutland Roman Villa with members of the University of Leicester Archaeological Services team View image DP264265 © Historic England
Images & Books
Find Photos

Search All Publications

Buy Books

The Historic England Archive
Images & Books

Historic England holds an extensive range of publications and historic collections in its public archive covering the historic environment.

Browse our collections

Children play with a doll and a pram on the cobbled Church Path in Queen Camel, Somerset, in April 1953. At the far end of the path is the tower of the Church of St Barnabas, which dates to the 14th century. Photographer: John Gay Image reference: AA091596 © Historic England Archive
Services & Skills
Education

Grants

Our Planning Services

Training & Skills

Archive Services

Heritage Action Zones

Levelling Up Places Service
Services & Skills

Find out about services offered by Historic England for funding, planning, education and research, as well as training and skill development.

Learn about our services

Heritage Apprentices in a training session on the Researching The Historic Environment module and training in Architectural Photography. Find out more about Heritage Apprenticeships © Historic England Archive DP347660
What's New
News

In Your Area

Historic England Blog

Latest Research

Heritage Online Debate

Statements

Stay up to Date
What's New

Read about our current news, projects and campaigns nationally and in your area.

Catch up with what's new

Two horsemen reading The Sportsman, 30 Oct 1902, Farnborough, Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire. Part of the Alfred Newton and Sons collection. Source Historic England Archive. BB98/02592
About Us
What We Do

Who We Are

How We Are Funded

Contact Us

Careers

Volunteer with Historic England
About Us

Historic England is the public body that helps people care for, enjoy and celebrate England's spectacular historic environment.

Find out more

Mountbatten House (formerly Gateway House), Basing View, Basingstoke, the former headquarters for the paper merchants Wiggins Teape by Arup Associates. Listed at Grade II. © Historic England
Sign in
Manage my account

Sign out

EAST LEIGH HOUSE INCUDING COB AND STONE GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106561
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: EAST LEIGH HOUSE INCUDING COB AND STONE GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH
Statutory Address:: EAST LEIGH HOUSE INCUDING COB AND STONE GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2007-05-13
Reference:: IOE01/16342/04
Rights:: © Mr Hedley R. Hooper. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1106561
Date first listed:: 15-Dec-1986
List Entry Name:: EAST LEIGH HOUSE INCUDING COB AND STONE GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: EAST LEIGH HOUSE INCUDING COB AND STONE GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: EAST LEIGH HOUSE INCUDING COB AND STONE GARDEN WALLS TO SOUTH

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Devon
District:: Mid Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Coldridge
National Grid Reference:: SS 69771 05336

Details

COLDRIDGE EAST LEIGH SS 60 NE 1/36 East Leigh House including - cob and stone garden walls to south GV II

House, former farmhouse. Late C16, possibly earlier core; major C17 improvements, alterations and extensions associated with stone plaques dated 1664 and 1678; modernised in mid C19. Mostly plastered cob on rubble footings but stone rubble exposed to first floor level in front of hall, cob exposed to rear of late C17 main block and stair block of exposed stone rubble with some cob; exposed stacks of neatly-squared blocks of local mudstone topped with C20 brick; thatch roof and corrugated asbestos to stair block. House faces south. The original core occupies the centre and left (west) end of the main block and is derived from a 3-room-and-through-passage plan house. The through passage is now at the left end since the service end room has been demolished. Hall has slightly projecting front lateral stack. Probably early C17 kitchen block at right angles to rear of hall with end stack and oven projection. In the late C17 the inner room was rebuilt with a stair block projecting to rear and another room added onto right (east) end with end stack. At this time the main entrance moved to front of former inner room which was given a lobby and converted to an entrance hall. C20 glass-walled outshot to rear of passage in the angle of the main block and kitchen. Balanced but asymmetrical 4-window front comprising a variety of mid C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and, at the right end, late C19 horned 8-pane sashes. Main door is right of centre; a mid C19 6-panel door with contemporary flat-roofed porch with circular section granite columns with plain caps and unusual moulded entablature including a modillion frieze. Above the porch a small sandstone plaque is inscribed '1K 1664'. Another set in the right end stack is inscribed '1K 1678'. There is a second mid C19 6-panel door at the left end of front to the through passage. The hall stack has its original rubble chimney shaft, now plastered and extended with C20 brick. The roof is gable-ended, as too is the rear kitchen block. Rear also includes late C19 and C20 casements with glazing bars and the stair block has a large C19 2-light casement with glazing bars. The rear passage doorway is late C16-early C17; an oak doorframe with flat-arched head and chamfered surround, the stops have worn away. It contains a contemporary plank door with plain strap hinges and enriched with a star pattern of nail heads. It preserves the original oak lock housing. Good Interior: the through passage has a pitched cobble floor. The passage-hall partition is a late C16-early C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen; the muntins are chamfered with late step stops, there is an ovolo-moulded cornice on the passage side, and it contains a flat-arched doorway. The large hall fireplace of about the same date is built of neatly squared mudstone blocks with a soffit-chamfered oak lintel and includes an inserted cloam oven. The 3-bay ceiling is carried on late C16-early Cl7 crossbeams, soffit-chamfered with step stops, although the half beam against the cob crosswall at the upper end appears to be a mid C17 replacement; it is soffit-chamfered with bar-runout stops. Part of the floor at the upper end is of pitched cobbles. Another oak flat-arched doorframe with chamfered surround and step stops leads from hall to kitchen. The kitchen has plain axial beam and a large rubble fireplace with plain oak lintel and inserted or relined late C19 oven. The entrance hall, the former inner room, has a late C16-early C17 crossbeam, mutilated but soffit-chamfered with step stops. The doors to the hall and entrance lobby are late C17 fielded panel doors hung on early H-hinges. The end room was refurbished in the late C19 and no earlier features show. The stairs were replaced at the same time. On the first floor the chambers over the hall and passage show mostly late C16- early C17 features. They are separated by an oak-framed close-studded closed truss which includes a flat-arched doorway with chamfered surround and step stops. An early C17 oak plank-and-muntin screen, its muntins chamfered with scroll stops, is now used to line the end wall. Both the closed truss and the open truss over the hall chamber are side-pegged jointed cruck trusses. They are not smoke-blackened. The doorway through the cob crosswall at upper end of hall chamber has early C17 chamfered and scroll-stopped oak frame. The rest of the roof of the main block has been altered but most appears to be C17 carpentry and towards the east end is an apparently early C17 A-frame truss with pegged dovetail lap-jointed collar with 2 sets of threaded purlins. The kitchen roof is probably late C17 comprising tall A- frame trusses with pegged lap-jointed collars. The front garden is enclosed by a C19 low rubble wall with C20 concrete coping to west and cob with slate and corrugated asbestos coping to south and east. Until 1921 the house was in the occupation of the Kingdom family according to the present owner.

Listing NGR: SS6976905343

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 95588
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.