145, Westbury Leigh is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 March 1978. House.
145, Westbury Leigh
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-vault-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1978
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ST 859 498
- Coordinates
- 51.24733, -2.20232
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 145 on Westbury Leigh is a late 16th-century building that stands two storeys tall. It features a timber frame with brick infill and has a pebbledash finish on the front, except for the projecting gable end to the right of the center. The roof is covered with double roman tiles. On the left side of the gable, there are two ranges of three-light casement windows. The gabled projection has a three-light window in the gable, which has been altered at the angle to the left, and a modern window on the ground floor. To the right of this projection, there is a two-light casement window on the first floor and another two-light casement window on the ground floor, located to the right of a plank door that features a lion's mask knocker and a semi-circular hood supported by a lozenge and quatrefoil trellis porch. There is also a plank door in the gabled projection. To the right, there is a two-storey brick stable extension and two small ridge chimneys.
At the rear, the building reveals exposed timber work across nine bays, forming an 'L' plan due to a two-bay extension to the left that is built into the hillside. This side includes two ranges of two and three-light casement windows.
Inside, the room on the ground floor to the right of the right-hand doorway is partly panelled and features a wide fireplace with a Tudor arch and a bread oven. In the room to the left of the gabled extension on the ground floor, there is a fine wide chimneypiece dated 1591, displaying the initials 'C' over "E.A." (for Edward and Alice Cogswell) and a wool mark, along with a moulded cornice. This room is also panelled and has a bench around it, along with an enriched timber cornice. The upstairs also has panelling and a very fine, albeit partly obscured, fireplace. The beams exhibit unusual stop chamfers, and in the rear wing, there are substantial traces of dragon-beam construction at the end corners of the first floor level, with vestiges of a similar treatment in the projecting gable at the front.
Local climate
145, Westbury Leigh receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 60% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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