Listed Building record MDO21049 - Bytheway, formerly Leigh House, Colehill

A house built in the early nineteenth century. The walls of the building are covered in render and it has a slate roof. A wing at the north is possibly of 18th-century date.

Ordnance Survey, Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, epoch 2, Dorset XXXV.5 Revised: 1900, Published: 1901 (Map). SDO11594.

'Leigh House'

Royal Commission on Historical Monuments (England), 1975, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume V (East), 4 (Monograph). SDO129.

‘(2) LEIGH HOUSE (03139998), mainly of three storeys, with rendered walls and slate-covered roofs, is of the early 19th century. The S. front is symmetrical and of three bays, with a central doorway and large sashed windows; the central first-floor window is round-headed. A two-storeyed service wing on the N. has brick walls and a tiled roof and probably is of 18th-century origin.’

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Aug 18 2026 12:03PM