Southerleigh

A detached house, likely originally a farmhouse, dating from the late 16th century and extensively remodelled and enlarged. The house is constructed of cob and brick, with all surfaces plastered, and has gabled-end slate roofs. The original layout is difficult to determine, but it may have been a three-room, through-passage house with a rear wing for service rooms, originally heated by an external lateral stack (now an end stack to the rear range). Another stack towards the rear of the front range may have originally been a rear lateral stack heating the hall. The rear wing was extended, probably in the early 19th century, resulting in a double-depth plan. Both stacks have brick shafts, mostly plastered. The house has three storeys. The front elevation has irregular window placement beneath a dentil cornice that returns only on the left-hand side. The second floor has three windows, two with 12-pane hornless sashes, and one with a two-paned, horned sash. The first floor has three 12-pane hornless sash windows, and the ground floor has two similar sash windows and a gabled, tiled, bargeboarded porch with a panelled door. The left-hand side elevation features a brick stair turret to the right of the former external service-end stack, with a 12-pane hornless sash and a round-headed window on the second floor, and an open latticework porch to a side entrance. The rear elevation includes a three-storeyed, hip-roofed canted bay with a two-by-two-by-two-pane horned sash window on the second floor, an eight-by-sixteen-by-eight pane hornless sash window on the first floor, and eight-pane hornless sash side windows on the ground floor with a central garden door. The right-hand elevation has two 16-pane hornless sash windows, along with late 19th and 20th century sash and casement windows. Inside, there are ceiling cross beams, one with mortices for a former screen (though its original location is uncertain), and another with hollow step stops. A dog-leg staircase with stick balusters, dating from the early 19th century, is present, along with other early 19th century joinery, including panelled doors. The roof of the front range is likely late 18th century and is morticed and pegged at the apex.