4 Leighton Place / 2 Leighton Place

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

SJ 2829 SE OSWESTRY C.P. LEIGHTON PLACE

15/76 Nos. 2 and 4 -

GV II

House, now 2 cottages with part of No. 2 used as shop. C17, re-modelled and extended late C18 with C19 and C20 additions and alterations.

Painted brick and uncoursed rubble probably replacing timber frame, steep-pitched slate roof at right-angles to street. Original 2-bay plan extended late C18 by single-bay addition to north. 2 storeys and attic; late C20 casements throughout, 3 below eaves and 3 to ground floor, 2 gabled eaves dormers to right and one flat-roofed dormer to left, late C20 stable door to No. 4 (left) and glazed door to No. 2 (centre); small red brick internal end stack to left. Gable to road has C20 shop front and contemporary casements above, projecting purlin ends. Interior: No. 4 has timber framed partition wall with No. 2 (light panels) and gable end with square panels and long straight tension braces (upstairs), partly infilled inglenook fireplace in corner of ground-floor room; exposed roof truss of Queen-strut type forms division with No. 2.

Listing NGR: SJ2895429244

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/2188 IOE Records taken by Les White; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Les White. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project