Leigh Ball Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. Cottage. 2 related planning applications.
Leigh Ball Cottages
- WRENN ID
- open-rubblework-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Devon
- Constituency
- Torridge and Tavistock MP: Sir Geoffrey Cox (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 November 1985
- Type
- Cottage
- Address
- Leigh Ball Cottages, Milton Abbot, PL19 0PH
- OS grid reference
- SX 400 778
- Coordinates
- 50.57856, -4.26014
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh Ball Cottages are a pair of cottages built around 1910 for the Bedford Estate, located near the entrance to Endsleigh House. The cottages are constructed from dressed stone rubble with stone dressings at the front and brick at the rear. They feature gabled slate roofs with rendered stacks on the ridge and ornamental slate hanging in the gables.
The design includes two symmetrical adjoining cottages with Picturesque details, likely intended to complement Endsleigh Lodge No.1, which is about 150 meters to the northeast. Each cottage has side entrances with rustic porches supported by timber posts and slate roofs. They also have a chamfered string course, deep eaves with bargeboards, and two gables at the front and sides, with the rear side gable being slightly advanced.
The front and side windows are fitted with cast iron diamond panes, which are a distinctive feature. The cottages are two storeys high, with a symmetrical front that includes two ground floor canted bay windows featuring casements with high transoms in chamfered stone architraves. The first floor has two-light casements also in chamfered stone architraves, and the gables are adorned with ornamental slate hanging. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Leigh Ball Cottages sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 7 transactions since 2000
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- 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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