Leigh Court

Leigh Court is a farmhouse, now a detached house, dating to the 16th and 17th centuries, with alterations made in the 1930s by the Collett family. The building is constructed of dressed limestone, with 20th-century brick stacks and a tiled roof. The plan has been altered, consisting of opposing doorways leading into an entrance hall behind the main stack, and a service cross wing beyond the hall. The main part of the building is single-storey with an attic. It features two casement windows. A stone gabled porch with a coped verge and a ledged door in an ovolo-moulded doorway is located to the left of the main range. There are two 1930s mullioned casement windows to the left and right, and one 17th-century mullioned casement to the right. The attic has two 20th-century steel casement windows with gables. A 17th-century cross wing to the left has 1930s mullioned casements and an outshut to the right.

The rear elevation has an ovolo-moulded door surround to a central planked door, a 1930s two-light mullioned casement and a small leaded light to the left, a buttress with offsets and a 1930s mullioned casement with an original hoodmould to the right, and attic windows consisting of a single chamfered light, a gabled two-light steel casement, and a three-light mullioned casement with a hoodmould. The cross wing to the right has a two-light mullioned casement with a hoodmould and two 12-pane sashes to the first floor. To the left is a former barn with a 1930s mullioned and transomed casement and a three-light casement to the attic. A basement has a shouldered chamfered doorway and a chamfered single light. The right return has a 1930s square bay window to the ground floor, a 17th-century blocked mullioned casement to the first floor, and a 1930s casement to the attic.

The interior includes 1930s alterations such as the removal of stairs and the replacement with a large dogleg staircase in the entrance hall. A hollow-chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with a planked door and strap hinges leads from the entrance hall to a main heated room, which contains a very deep chamfered beam with stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and an open fireplace with a cambered lintel on stone jambs. A blocked ovolo-moulded pointed archway in the wall separates this room from the outshut of the cross wing. The cross wing has a Tudor-arched stone fireplace, and evidence of three former doorways from the main room to the cross wing suggests a former hall and cross passage entered through the pointed arch. The first floor has a plank and muntin partition and a chamfered Tudor-arched fireplace with jewel stops to the room above the main room. The roof was renewed in the 1930s. The present house likely represents the remains of a late Medieval house. Colt Hoare noted Leigh Court as a manor house in his 1829 publication, Modern Wiltshire.