Leigh House and Gatepiers is a Grade II* listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1950. House.
Leigh House and Gatepiers
- WRENN ID
- north-pier-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wiltshire
- Constituency
- South West Wiltshire MP: Dr Andrew Murrison (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 December 1950
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leigh House and Gatepiers, 18, Westbury Leigh
- OS grid reference
- ST 864 501
- Coordinates
- 51.25079, -2.19535
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh House and Gatepiers, formerly known as Victoria House between 1950 and the mid-1980s, dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed of brick on a projecting plinth with stone capping. The house features a moulded stone string at the first floor level and a moulded stone eaves cornice. The corners are accentuated with chamfered stone quoins, and there is a contemporary cast lead gutter over the cornice with a fretted edge. The roof is hipped and covered with old tiles, featuring a stone ridge and ball finials at the corners.
On the first floor, there are five windows set within a moulded stone architrave, each with arched heads, moulded springers, and plain keys, all beneath wide rubbed brick arches and slightly projecting brick aprons. The sashes are centrally divided. The ground floor has four rectangular windows with stone architrave surrounds, and an altered early 19th-century glazed central door, flanked by narrow side glazing. This door is set in a wide moulded stone architrave, supported by scroll stone brackets, and features a reeded and beaded front face, topped with a moulded cornice hood and an opposing scroll broken pediment with a central fluted urn.
The interior has been altered, and the left return displays a brick modillion band over the ground floor. To the right, there are Victorian gatepiers featuring wide capping mouldings, with a smaller single capping moulding to the left.
Local climate
Leigh House and Gatepiers receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 64% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% 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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