Leigh Farmhouse

SX 36 SW QUETHIOCK

12/125 Leigh Farmhouse

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Farmhouse. Circa C17, remodelled and extended in early mid C19. Local slate rubble with some granite dressings. Rear of lower end rendered. Dry slate roof with gabled ends, lower left end has lower pitched hipped roof with slightly lower ridge and higher eaves. Stone rubble chimney stacks, heightened in brick. The original house was a 3-room and through passage plan with a rear lateral stack heating hall, and a gable end stack heating inner room and possibly the chamber above. An unheated wing was added at the front of the higher end probably in C18 which is now the dairy. In circa early mid C19 the lower end was rebuilt with a double depth plan (with a two-span hipped roof) projecting at rear, the lower end of which is a stable with loft above. Two storeys. Long range with through passage doorway near centre with C19 plank door. To right another C19 plank door has been inserted into hall with two C19 2-light casements above with glazing bars. To left of passage a tall 18-pane stair sash and 16-pane sash on each floor, all with segmental stone arches. To far left at lower end the stables with doorway blocked ground floor window and left door above. At the higher end to right, the projecting dairy wing with gable end and short narrow wing on inner face at end of wing and open-fronted shelter in space between. At the rear a large lateral hall stack with slated set-offs three-light hall casement to left and two-light casement to inner roof to far left and similar casements above, all C19. To right of stack the lower end projecting with late C19 sash windows and rear doorway to passage with plank door and C20 open porch. Interior: through passage survives although now is rebuilt lower end. The hall has rear lateral fireplace with hollow-chamfered cambered granite lintel and jambs the fireplace appear to have been widened and the jambs moved outward. Apart from this fireplace the house has been largely remodelled in early to mid C19 since when it has been little altered arid much of the early to mid 019, joinery survives including panelled doors and a dog-leg staircase in the lower end which has stack balusters arid a moulded handrail ramped up to turned newels. The dairy wing is coiiplete with a slate table arid shelves around the walls. The through passage retains its slate floor.

Listing NGR: SX3380264131