Home Lea

Home Lea is a farmhouse that has been converted into a house. It dates from the late 17th century and was extended in 1767, as indicated by a datestone, with further additions and alterations made later. The building is constructed from uncoursed limestone rubble and features stone slate roofs. It has a three-unit baffle-entry plan with a lower range from 1767 set back to the left. The structure is two storeys high with an attic.

The exterior includes mullioned windows with dripstones throughout, with four windows directly below the eaves and three on the ground floor—one to the left and two to the right of the entrance. The windows are mostly two lights, except for the three-light windows located directly on either side of the roughly central entrance, which has a small 20th-century casement window immediately to the left. There are gabled dormers on both sides of the roof slope. The building has integral end stacks, with the right stack completely rebuilt in the 20th century and the left stack rebuilt above the dripstone. The ridge stack, located immediately to the right of center, also has its shaft rebuilt above the dripstone. The entrance features a 20th-century four-panel door beneath a gabled bracketed hood.

To the left, the 18th-century range has an integral end stack that was rebuilt in the 20th century, with the datestone "TM 1767" located below the shaft. There is a rectangular bread oven projection at the base. The rear side of the building, facing the road, also has two-light mullion windows with dripstones, with three windows below the eaves and three on the ground floor. There is an additional window lighting the staircase between the left and center bays, along with a roughly central gabled dormer in the roof slope. The 18th-century addition has two 20th-century casements with concrete lintels and two 20th-century eaves dormers.

Inside, the main range features chamfered spine beams in the ground and first-floor rooms, with winder staircases located at the sides of the end stacks leading from the first floor to the attic; the corresponding staircases from the ground to the first floor have been removed. The attic has a double-purlin collar truss roof with five bays. The 18th-century addition also has chamfered spine beams and joists on the ground floor, with the position of the winder staircase visible to the right of the inglenook fireplace, which has a chamfered wood lintel. The roof of this addition is similar to that of the main range, comprising two bays.