Trinity Leigh Farmhouse

Farmhouse. Dating from the 17th century, with a possible earlier core, it was modernised in the late 19th century. The walls are plastered cob on rubble footings, with stone rubble or cob stacks topped with 20th-century brick, and a thatch roof, with corrugated iron and slate roofs to outshots. The original design was a three-room-and-through-passage house facing south, with a service end room on the left (west) end. The service end room has a projecting end stack, the hall has an axial stack backing onto the passage, and the inner room has a projecting rear lateral stack. A late 19th-century staircase is located in the wide through passage. There were likely secondary outshots to the rear, either side of the rear passage door.

The front elevation is irregular, and features five windows, mostly late 19th-century casements with glazing bars, and two 20th-century casements without glazing bars. The front passage doorway, positioned left of centre, is a late 19th-century partly-glazed door with margin panes containing original coloured glass. This doorway and the service end room windows are now behind a 20th-century conservatory with a corrugated plastic roof. The hall-inner room crosswall is supported by a 19th or 20th-century buttress on the right side.

The roof is gable-ended on the left and hipped on the right, with the eaves stepping up twice towards the right end, indicating rebuilding work at that end. Internally, the house shows mostly the results of late 19th-century modernisations, but the survival of the original layout suggests that earlier features probably survive behind the plasterwork. For example, all the fireplaces are blocked by 19th and 20th-century grates, and no beams are visible. The first-floor trusses have been incorporated into the crosswalls, and the roofspace is inaccessible, although the large size and good finish of the exposed purlins suggest a 17th or earlier roof survives intact.