North Leigh House is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. Farmhouse.
North Leigh House
- WRENN ID
- sombre-bonework-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1966
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- North Leigh House, Stelling Minnis, Canterbury, Elmsted, CT4 6BX
- OS grid reference
- TR 132 470
- Coordinates
- 51.18272, 1.05022
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Leigh House is a farmhouse that likely dates from the early 18th century, featuring a facade from the late 18th or early 19th century and 20th-century additions. The building may be timber framed, with the front elevation and right gable end constructed in a style known as Sussex bond. It has a plain tile roof and stands two storeys high on a brick plinth, with a plat band and a hipped roof. There is a brick ridge stack towards the left end and a gable-end stack to the right. The windows are arranged irregularly, consisting of four sashes in open boxes: one twenty-four pane window to the left of the stack, two to the right, and one twelve-pane window under the stack. The ground-floor windows have segmental heads. A half-glazed door is set in a 20th-century red brick porch with a hipped plain tile roof located under the stack. There is a blocked doorway towards the right end of the building. To the right, there is a short two-storey red brick parallel rear wing from the 19th century, with a roof hipped to the right and a rear lean-to attached. The building also features a Sun Insurance plaque.
The interior has only been partly inspected but likely includes re-used timber. The room to the left of the stack has a ceiling, with a cross beam located a few feet to the right of the stack. This area has plain joists between the beam and the stack, and mixed plain and hollow-chamfered joists to the right. There is a brick fireplace with a bressumer to the right side of the stack, and a fireplace from the 18th or 19th century with a high bressumer in the room at the right end.
Local climate
North Leigh House receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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