St Leonards Dale

St Leonard's Dale is a house dating from around 1700-1720, with alterations made in the late 18th century. It is of group value. The main house is two storeys high and built of colourwashed stucco, with a narrow string course marking the first floor level, a delicate bracketed and moulded eaves cornice, and a hipped slate roof featuring small slates. The walls are colourwashed yellow, while the string course woodwork and other features are painted white. The facade features two square windows on the first floor and a central semi-circular window recessed in stucco, framing a fan design. The ground floor has two tall, three-light sash windows with moulded frames, each incorporating a segmental stucco fan tympanum within a segmental headed recess. A tall, six-panelled central door is topped with an arched fanlight displaying radiating and wreathed detailing, set within a moulded architrave. An elaborate rectangular doorcase is formed of three-quarter engaged Corinthian columns supporting an entablature with a frieze adorned with swags. A service wing is attached to the right at the rear. The south front mirrors the colour and materials of the main facade and comprises three two-storey, angular bays with hipped slate roofs. Inside, a room on the west ground floor, with a canted bay overlooking the garden, retains fielded panelling and a bolection surround to the fireplace. Other ground floor rooms feature late 18th-century mouldings and Adamesque fireplaces. A simple open string staircase is present, boasting turned balusters and a continuous moulded handrail.