Lealands Farmhouse

Lealands Farmhouse is a house dating from the 16th and 18th centuries. It is timber framed, plastered, and has a roof made of handmade red clay tiles. The main range, which faces southwest, consists of three bays and likely dates from the 16th century or earlier, featuring a late 16th-century inserted stack on the left side of the right bay. To the right is an 18th-century crosswing with a central stack that extends to the rear, forming an L-plan. The building has two storeys.

On the ground floor, there are three early 19th-century sash windows with 16 lights each. The first floor features two late 18th or early 19th-century single-hung sashes with 12 lights and two early 19th-century double-hung sashes with 16 lights. Many of the window panes are made of crown glass. The entrance includes an early 19th-century six-panel door, with the top two panels glazed, set in a simple reeded doorcase topped with a shallow hood on profiled brackets. The roof of the main range is half-hipped at the left end, while the crosswing has a fully hipped roof.

Inside, the main range originally included a service bay on the left and a two-bay hall, where a late 16th-century floor and axial stack have been added. This floor features two chamfered longitudinal beams with lamb's tongue stops, which are joined to a chamfered transverse beam against the stack. The joists, which are plastered on the soffits, are supported on pegged clamps. The absence of support for the floor beams from the stack suggests that there was once a timber-framed chimney in the same location. The stack includes a large wood-burning hearth facing left, which has been sealed, allowing the original hall house's cross-entry to remain unobstructed. The building has jowled posts, and the walls were raised approximately 1.30 metres in the 17th century, with all internal tiebeams removed. Most of the frame is covered in plaster. The 18th-century crosswing replaced the original parlour or solar bay.