Leigh House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 March 1955. House.
Leigh House
- WRENN ID
- tilted-cellar-curlew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- Mid Dorset and North Poole MP: Vikki Slade (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 March 1955
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leigh House, Leigh Road, Wimborne, Colehill, BH21 2BY
- OS grid reference
- SZ 031 999
- Coordinates
- 50.79936, -1.95689
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh House is a house mainly built in the early 19th century. It features stucco walls on the front block, while the other walls are made of brick in Flemish Garden Wall bond. The front has a low pitched hipped roof covered with pantiles, and the older lower rear part has a tiled roof with hips and half-hips. This two-storey building, which has older origins, has been renovated and includes two rear wings that extend to a taller three-storey front. The symmetrical south elevation has three storeys and three windows, with sash windows set in reveals. The central first-floor window is a tall round-headed light, while the rear part of the main block has second-floor sashes, and all other windows are casements. The entrance features a Doric porch supported by two columns and two pilasters, set on a stone step, with an oval decorative fan light above coupled doors. There is a staircase inside.
Local climate
Leigh House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 13 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 88% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 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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