Leigh Court

Abbots Leigh, United Kingdom

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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Leigh Court is a Grade II* listed country house in Abbots Leigh, Somerset, built in 1814 by architect Thomas Hopper in the Palladian style for Philip John Miles. The estate occupies land with monastic origins—once a rest house for monks of St Augustine's Abbey—and later housed an Elizabethan mansion built by Sir George Norton, one of whose descendants sheltered Charles II during his 1651 escape to France. The rebuilt Regency mansion became the seat of the Miles baronets and contained a collection of over a hundred paintings by Old Masters. Following the First World War, it converted to a psychiatric hospital under Rev Harold Nelson Burden in 1919, though it was subsequently restored. The Palladian structure retains a largely intact Greek Revival interior. The grounds, originally landscaped by Humphrey Repton and now partly encompassing the Leigh Woods National Nature Reserve, include a walled garden supporting an organic farm. Today the house operates as a venue for weddings and conferences.