Leighton Hall

Leighton Hall is a country house dating from 1765, likely designed by J. Hird, with earlier fabric incorporated. The south-east front was remodeled in the early 19th century in a Gothic style, possibly by Thomas Harrison. A tower at the west end of the facade was added in 1870 by Paley and Austin. The facade is constructed of limestone ashlar, while the rear is roughcast rubble with sandstone dressings, all set beneath a slate roof.

The central block is of two storeys and three bays, displaying a battlemented design with octagonal corner turrets. The central bay projects, featuring a one-story, battlemented porch with clasping buttresses topped with ogee caps. The molded doorway is set within a wider, chamfered four-centred opening with tracery. Windows are chamfered with mullions and hood moulds, with three lights on the ground floor and two on the first. The upper lights have four-centered heads, except for the outer ones on the first floor, all fitted with sash windows and glazing bars. The porch windows have elaborate tracery in their heads. To the right is a single-story, two-bay link with battlements and pinnacles. The first bay has a window with tracery; the second is a blank window with painted tracery. The right-hand pavilion, initially appearing to be a chapel due to pinnacled buttresses, a window with panelled tracery, and a cross on the gable apex, is actually a stable. A glass conservatory is located at the far right, while to the left is a two-story link to the three-story, battlemented tower by Paley and Austin, with a four-story turret in the angle. The tower features mullioned windows of various designs and a canted bay window to the south-east wall. A three-story wing extends to the rear of the tower, incorporating added buttresses and sash windows with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds. One window in the west wall has a rebated and chamfered surround. The east wall of this wing retains some 17th-century dressings on the ground floor, including a chamfered door surround with a triangular head under a drip mould, and a chamfered window surround with a drip mould. The rear wall of the main block has sash windows with glazing bars in plain stone surrounds; the stair window has a pointed head and traceried glazing bars. The east wall of the stable block displays a central pedimented bay and stable doorways with semi-circular heads.

The interior features an entrance hall with a screen of clustered columns displaying molded four-centered arches, and a cantilevered stone staircase with a swept handrail and stick balusters.