Leonard Farmhouse

Leonard Farmhouse is a 15th-century farmhouse, with alterations dating to the 16th and 18th centuries. It is constructed of cob with a stone plinth, roughcast render, and a gabled-end slate roof. Originally a three-room farmhouse with a through-passage, the higher end of the house is located on the left side of the passage. The medieval smoke-blackened roof structure survives beneath the current replacement roof, and the roll mouldings on the main ground floor room beams indicate a relatively early floor insertion. An 18th-century extension was added for storage. The farmhouse has end stacks, one axial to the left, and a prominent front lateral stack with three sets of brick offsets to heat the hall. The front elevation has a four-window range with two- and three-light barred casement windows on both floors; one window to each ground floor room, and one three-light window to the later extension, where the join between the extension and the original house is clearly visible. A wide planked door serves the extension, and a sloped, slate-roofed porch covers the entrance passage. 20th-century windows and buttresses are present on the right-hand extension, with a rear outshut under a catslide roof featuring two four-light openings. The left-hand end of the house has a single three-light casement window containing 18 leaded panes per light.

Inside, a 16th-century planked door provides access to a rear entrance opposite the passage. The lower end room contains one roughly chamfered cross beam. The hall features a grid of intersecting beams, each with seven roll mouldings and one convex moulding, forming four ceiling squares. The lower end beam was cut back to accommodate later stairs. A chamfered, slightly cranked lintel is the only surviving remnant of the original large front fireplace, the rest of which has been rebuilt. The parlour has a grid of intersecting beams, each with five roll mouldings and one concave moulding, creating four ceiling squares; the rear square suggests a corridor or porch projecting into the room. A circa 1900 end fireplace is fitted with polished limestone and tiling. The roof structure consists of four bays, the hall occupying two, with three jointed crucks, pegged, a diagonal ridge piece, and two pairs of trenched purlins. The central truss in the hall is notable for its chamfered arch-brace, while the lower end truss is closed. The lower end is only slightly sooted, the hall is heavily smoke-blackened, and the parlour (with a closed truss) is very lightly sooted.