Leigh House is a Grade II listed building in the North Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 October 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Leigh House
- WRENN ID
- eastward-mortar-rush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Devon
- Constituency
- North Devon MP: Ian Roome (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 October 1987
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leigh House, 14, West Street, Witheridge, EX16 8AA
- OS grid reference
- SS 803 144
- Coordinates
- 50.91724, -3.70312
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh House is a late 18th-century house located on the north side of West Street in Witheridge. The house is constructed with rendered and roughcast walls, showing rubble beneath, and has wide eaves and a slate gabled roof. The plan is of a single-room depth, with a central staircase hall connecting to reception rooms on the ground floor; the room to the right was likely a kitchen originally. The house is three storeys high. The first floor has two asymmetrical windows with four panes to each sash, while the second floor has a single window with twelve panes. On the ground floor is a single four-pane sash window. A door opening is positioned to the left of the ground floor, featuring a doorcase with pilasters, an entablature, and a cornice, all of wood. The door has panelled reveals and a panelled door. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Leigh House receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% 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 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 6 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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