Leigh Library is a Grade II listed building in the Southend-on-Sea local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 August 1974. Library. 5 related planning applications.

Leigh Library

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Southend-on-Sea
Constituency
Southend West and Leigh MP: David Burton-Sampson (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
23 August 1974
Type
Library
Address
Leigh Library, Broadway West, Leigh-On-Sea, SS9 2DA
OS grid reference
TQ 839 858
Coordinates
51.54199, 0.65198
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Leigh Library is an early 19th-century red brick house with blue brick headers, built in 1838 in a "Tudor" style as a rectory for St Clements Church and now serves as a library. The building has two storeys and attics. The north front features a four-window range with casements that have lattice leaded lights. A central brick porch projects from the front, adorned with corner turrets and a stepped gabled parapet that displays a stone coat of arms. The south front has a three-window range with mullioned and transomed casements, also with leaded lights and moulded brick hood moulds. There are three gables, each with cut and shaped bargeboards. The end bays, each with one window, project slightly forward, and there is a central brick bay window topped with a gabled parapet that bears a coat of arms and the date 1838. On the east side, there are two gabled projections, each with one window, and one window between them. The west side features one gabled projection and a bay window. An octagonal turret with a swept tiled spirelet and a finial is located on the south-west corner. The roof is tiled and includes four brick gabled dormers on the north front, along with two six-shafted chimney stacks that have octagonal shafts, moulded caps, and bases on rectangular bases.

Local climate

Leigh Library receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 61% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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