Old Bank House

LEIGH HILL 1. 5219 ELEIGH-ON-SEA No 42 (Old Bank House) TQ 8485 6/53 1.1.73. II 2. A C18 timber-framed and plastered house, altered and added to in the C19 and C20. The rear part is weatherboarded. The house stands on steeply sloping ground with 2 storeys on the north and 3 storeys on the south. A later C19 brick addition with a parapet was built on the east side and a 2-storey music room and library was built on the south side (1912-13). The north front has 2 window range to the original house and 1 window range to the addition, double-hung sashes with glazing bars. The ground storey has a 3-light window. The south addition has a large mullioned and transomed splayed bay rising through 2 storeys, with leaded lights. On the east side there is a 5-panel door with the upper panel glazed, with panelled architrave and corner roundels with lions heads. Roof slate, hipped. The interior has a number of C18 features including a doorcase with shouldered architrave and a moulded panel with the words "Ye Old Bank House" and carved enrichment, a staircase with cut strings and carved spandrels, turned balusters and a "Corinthian" newel post and a mantelpiece. The music room, now a studio, has Art Nouveau features.

Listing NGR: TQ8412885682