South Leigh

South Leigh is a small house dated 1670, with a later addition from 1965. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, featuring a stone rubble stack with a 19th-century brick chimney shaft and a thatched roof. Originally a single-room and entrance lobby plan, the house now consists of one room and a 1965 service extension on the west side. The main house is two storeys, with an irregular two-window front featuring 19th and 20th-century casement windows with glazing bars. A disused 20th-century monopitch porch with an asbestos slate roof stands at the east end, concealing an original oak doorframe with a chamfered surround, repaired at the bottom. The lintel above the door is carved with the date 1670. The roof is hipped at each end.

Inside, a ground floor partition has been removed, and the head beam is boxed in. The crossbeam to the main room has an ovolo-moulded soffit with scroll stops, and the joists in the main room and former entrance lobby are scratch-moulded. The stone rubble fireplace has been partly rebuilt and includes an inserted or relined bread oven; its original oak lintel retains an ovolo-moulded soffit with scroll stops. The roof is inaccessible, and the truss feet are clad with plaster, likely original. The size and shape suggest an original A-frame roof with large timber trusses. The house contains relatively high-quality details. Alternatively, it may represent the western end of a once larger house; the entrance lobby could have been a cross or through passage. A window at the rear appears to block a former rear passage doorway.