Leigh House

Leigh House is an early 19th-century house located on Wharf Street in Bawtry. It is built of red brick in Flemish bond and features a Welsh slate roof. The house has three storeys and a symmetrical facade with three bays. At the base, there is a plinth. The central doorway includes a wide six-panelled door and a fanlight with radial glazing bars, set within a wooden doorcase that has reeded pilasters, sunken spandrels, and a cornice. The outer bays are fitted with bow windows, each featuring projecting sills and tripartite sashes with eight, twelve, and eight panes, topped by a plain frieze and cornice. On the first floor, there are large sashes with glazing bars and projecting sills beneath rubbed-brick flat arches, while the second floor has short six-pane sashes in similar surrounds. The hipped roof is complemented by two brick stacks at each end.

Inside, there is a plain wooden staircase with square baluster rods and a wreathed handrail. The doorcases are reeded with corner rosettes. In the ground-floor room on the right, there is a fireplace with a Neoclassical wooden surround, a cast-iron hearth curb, and a cast-iron fireback featuring Egyptian motifs. Other rooms on the first floor have cast-iron fire-baskets, one of which includes a Delft-tiled hearth.