Leigh Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 June 1985. House.
Leigh Cottage
- WRENN ID
- ghost-rubblework-hemlock
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 June 1985
- Type
- House
- Address
- Leigh Cottage, Duntisbourne Abbots
- OS grid reference
- SO 975 076
- Coordinates
- 51.76716, -2.03733
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Leigh Cottage is a former bakery that has been converted into a detached house, dating from the 18th century or early 19th century. It is constructed from random rubble limestone with dressed quoins, featuring a blue brick chimney and a plain tile roof. The building is single-storey with an attic and has a long plan with a gable end chimney located at the back.
The front gable has an off-centre doorway with a plank door, and to the left, there is a timber casement, both situated under a large timber lintel that was part of the former shop front. Above the lintel, there is a stone drip mould, and a single timber casement window is present in the attic. The sides of the building show scattered fenestration, mostly consisting of timber casements with timber lintels, and there is one window in the south wall featuring a small-paned horizontal sliding sash. The north wall projects and has a catslide roof above it.
Leigh Cottage is included for its group value, as it completes the tight grouping of buildings around the ford at Duntisbourne Leer.
Local climate
Leigh Cottage receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 52% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 42 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 80% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 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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