Leacon Hall

Leacon Hall is a house dating from 1708, built for the Hodges family. It is constructed of red and blue chequered brickwork, with a plain tiled roof. The house has two storeys and an attic, and stands on a plinth with a wooden moulded eaves cornice, featuring modillions. The roof is hipped and has three dormers, each with a pediment and horizontally sliding glazing bar sashes. Brick stacks are located to the left and right of the building. The windows are regularly spaced, with seven glazing bar sashes to the first floor and six to the ground floor. The window surrounds are made of rubbed brick, and the central first-floor window is especially ornate. The central front door consists of six moulded panels, topped with a rectangular fanlight and an open moulded segmental pediment supported on enriched consoles and moulded panel pilasters.

The interior features rooms with raised and fielded panelling throughout, incorporating separate dado and infilling panels, and simple moulded fireplaces. The entrance hall contains an angle fireplace and a wide, keyed segmental arch leading to the staircase hall. This arch is painted with a unicorn and a lion on the responds, and displays the initials KH and the date 1708 incorporated into the key and spandrels, along with painted swags and enrichment, executed by the same craftsman who created the Royal Arms and prayer boards in the Church of St. Matthew, Warehorne. The staircase is a dog-leg design, with turned balusters on scrolled tread ends, a moulded handrail, a raised and fielded panelled dado with fluted pilasters, and a ramped rail.