Leigh House And Gatepiers

Leigh House and Gatepiers, formerly known as Victoria House between 1950 and the mid-1980s, dates from the late 17th century to early 18th century. It is a two-storey building with an attic, constructed of brick on a projecting plinth with stone capping. The house features a moulded stone string at the first floor level and a moulded stone eaves cornice. The corners are accentuated with chamfered stone quoins, and there is a contemporary cast lead gutter over the cornice with a fretted edge. The roof is hipped and covered with old tiles, featuring a stone ridge and ball finials at the corners.

On the first floor, there are five windows set within a moulded stone architrave, each with arched heads, moulded springers, and plain keys, all beneath wide rubbed brick arches and slightly projecting brick aprons. The sashes are centrally divided. The ground floor has four rectangular windows with stone architrave surrounds, and an altered early 19th-century glazed central door, flanked by narrow side glazing. This door is set in a wide moulded stone architrave, supported by scroll stone brackets, and features a reeded and beaded front face, topped with a moulded cornice hood and an opposing scroll broken pediment with a central fluted urn.

The interior has been altered, and the left return displays a brick modillion band over the ground floor. To the right, there are Victorian gatepiers featuring wide capping mouldings, with a smaller single capping moulding to the left.