Combe Leigh Including Front Garden Area Wall, Gate Piers And Railings

Combe Leigh is a house, originally probably dating from the 18th century, that was remodelled and extended in the early to mid-19th century. The main part of the house is built of rendered stone rubble, with the left-hand west end of stone rubble with slate hanging on the exterior. It has an asbestos tile roof with gabled ends; a large stone rubble rear lateral stack heightened in brick, and a gable-end stack on the left-hand side with a short shaft. The house has a double-depth plan, with two principal front rooms leading to a wide entrance hall and a stairwell at the back. The left-hand room has a gable-end stack and a small dairy behind, while the right-hand room is heated from a rear lateral stack with back-to-back fireplaces – the rear fireplace also serves the kitchen behind, which has a small scullery wing at the rear. The dairy, the 2-storey outshut, and the small scullery wing appear to be early to mid-19th-century additions.

The south front is almost symmetrical, with three windows on each floor. The ground floor has 16-pane sash windows and a central doorway with a 19th-century panelled door and an early-20th-century wooden lattice porch. The first floor windows are smaller, with late-20th century casements. The left end wall is partly slate hung with scantle slates. The rear of the house includes outshuts and a wing to the left, which encloses the rear lateral stack. A circa early to mid-19th-century 4-light casement with glazing bars and small panes is on the side of the wing.

The front garden is enclosed by a 19th-century low slate rubble wall with slate coping and wrought iron railings above. The wall curves back around a gateway on the left side of the house. The gateway has a pair of square gate piers with stone caps and a 20th-century gate.

Inside, much of the 19th-century joinery remains, along with some 18th-century features. A wide entrance hall has an elliptical arch supported by console brackets, and a good open-well staircase at the back of the hall with shaped tread ends, stick balusters, and a mahogany handrail. The front right-hand room has an early-19th-century reeded wooden chimney piece with a moulded cornice, and the front left-hand room has a Victorian marble chimney piece and grate. The kitchen has a bracketed shelf over a blocked fireplace, and a dresser with a reeded architrave to the shelves and a 2-panel door leading to the scullery. Most of the panelled doors are 19th-century, though some doors on the first floor are said to be earlier 2-panel doors.