Leigh House and The Storks is a Grade II listed building in the Wychavon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. A C19 Pair of houses. 6 related planning applications.
Leigh House and The Storks
- WRENN ID
- outer-tracery-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wychavon
- Constituency
- Droitwich and Evesham MP: Nigel Huddleston (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Pair of houses
- Address
- Leigh House and The Storks, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EW
- OS grid reference
- SO 845 635
- Coordinates
- 52.27004, -2.22821
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh House and The Storks are a pair of houses built in the early to mid-19th century. They are constructed of brick and feature plain tiled roofs with kneeler brackets, gable verges, and integral brick stacks at both ends and at the center of the main ridge, which has a drip mould. The buildings are two storeys high with an attic and have gabled dormers. The front is symmetrical with six bays, showing slight breaks in the second and fifth bays where the main entrance is located. The design incorporates Tudor Gothic detailing.
The front elevation features windows and doors that all have hoodmoulds with returns. Both the ground and first floor windows are glazing bar sashes. Each large gabled dormer above the bays has a two-course band set above it and is corbelled out from the main eaves level. Each gable also contains a round-lobed quatrefoil light, and the entrance doors are part-glazed.
Although the interior has not been inspected, there is a Norwich Union fire insurance mark located above the first floor windows of the entrance bays. The houses share a similar design and are contemporary with Redmarley House.
Local climate
Leigh House and The Storks receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 6 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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