Save Leadenhall Grade 1 Listed Property Under Threat

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Anne Lyles explains some of the damage this development would cause. Read more from Anne here.

Dr Kate Feluś tells That’s TV that the planned works could diminish the site’s heritage. Read Kate’s article here.

Real Save Leadenhall — One of Salisbury’s most important Grade 1 listed buildings.

One of Salisbury’s finest buildings is under threat.

STOP PRESS – Historic England blocks garden listing
For many months garden historians have been lobbying to get the grounds of Grade I Leaden Hall added to the register of parks and gardens. This week, Historic England chose not to grant Leaden Halls setting and grounds the protection it deserves. Read more here.
Meanwhile please SIGN the petition,

Grade I listed Leaden Hall, in Salisbury Cathedral Close, is a building of exceptional importance. Built in the C13th for Elias Dereham, architect of the cathedral, and remodelled in the 1740’s reusing materials from the early medieval site, it was probably the first residential building in the historic Close.

Leaden Hall’s façade, boundary walls and grounds form a key component of the precious landscape of open space and heritage buildings that is the setting for the cathedral. The gardens that surround the Hall are a very rare example of a largely intact designed landscape for a smaller Georgian house. Both house and garden are now under significant threat.

Having neglected the building for years, the owners, the Dean & Chapter, have submitted a planning application to develop the house into a C21st office block for themselves. This change of use will require intrusive works that will change the façade and damage historic fabric.

Within the grounds, a prominent new archive building is proposed to house an irreplaceable collection of medieval manuscripts in a single-storey building, on a site that floods.

The proposed new archive building will obliterate the Georgian walled kitchen garden. This unique surviving example of a complete Georgian kitchen garden in an urban setting was recorded in a painting by John Constable, who regularly stayed at the Hall and painted many of his best-loved works there.

We must act now to stop these harmful plans.

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It is unbelievable that this historic, beautiful building was ever allowed to fall into disrepair. Changing it into a modern office block is totally inappropriate and sets a dangerous precedent for other historic buildings in The Close.

Susie V.

The proposal is neither in keeping with Leadenhall nor its surrounding environment. I hope the planning committee will see this and reject this application. The fact that Leadenhall has been allowed to decay into its present condition is scandalous.

Simon M.

It is hard to believe that a beautiful Georgian building should have been allowed to deteriorate as it has. The intimate link with Constable is something that should be treasured not trashed.

Malcolm C.

This place was not just a school – but a home – for so many of us who were fortunate enough to board at Leaden Hall throughout the years. Such a magical place should be preserved.

Ophelia W.

Planning rules require a public good and there is none that justifies these destructive plans.

Terry B.

This was a perfectly nice school before the dimwits in frocks over the road decided to kill it. Now they should be sued for not maintaining it, let alone be allowed to knock it around like this. There is something very rotten in this diocese; in the Middle Ages, the Dean and Bishop would have been included in a fresco depicting the torment of the damned.

Nicholas B.

I taught there for 17 years, after becoming the first male to teach at Leaden Hall in its 50 year history. It has a special place in my affections.

David W.

I appreciate the historical value and have personal memories as I attended school there in 1951-53