Description

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/01/2013

TQ 5446 19/693
5280

LEIGH
High Street (South side)
Lower Mead Cottage and The Firs

(Formerly listed as Oak Cottage and The Firs)

II

Early C20 neo-Tudor pair, possibly by Sir Ernest George. 2 storeys and attic,
3 bays, stepped back towards right. Tiled roofs. Tile-hung blank lst floor
in right bay. Other bays gabled, with oversailing gable ends and lst floors
on moulded beams. Geometrical half timbering, with roughcast filling, to 1st
floor. Oriel£bay windows. Red brick ground floor with square bay at left.
In centre porch built out to overhang of 1st floor. One tiny gabled dormer
and tall brick stacks.
Lower Mead Cottage has a pent porch on left return.

Listing NGR: TQ5449646401

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26549813

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5