East Leigh Farmhouse

East Leigh Farmhouse is a farmhouse dating from around the 16th or early 17th century, with later additions to the rear. It is constructed of rendered stone rubble, with the first floor of the front elevation slate-hung. The roof is slate-covered with gabled ends. Rendered chimney stacks are at the gable ends and a lateral hall stack at the rear has slate weatherings. Originally, the farmhouse followed a three-room and through-passage plan, with the lower end situated to the right. A rear lateral hall stack and gable end stacks serve the inner room and kitchen at the lower end. A two-storey porch is positioned in front of the passage. There are short wings to the rear of the higher end, alongside two further adjoining wings in the angle behind the hall and passage, incorporating an outshut on the lower side. A 19th-century staircase was inserted into the back of the passage, and a later glazed conservatory was added to the lower left end in the late 20th century.

The front elevation has a 4- to 5-window range, with a two-storey gabled porch to the right of centre. The porch features a chamfered rounded arch of slate voussoirs with a slate sundial in the gable above, dated 1671 and inscribed with the initial 'W'. The inner doorway has a heavy ovolo moulding, a hollow moulded doorframe with vase stops, a nail-studded plank door with covermoulds, wrought iron hinges and a timber lintel with ogee stops. 20th-century 2- and 3-light casement windows with glazing bars are present; first-floor windows are half dormers with raking roofs. At the rear, three adjoining gabled wings are situated on the right; the centre wing has a 3-light timber window with square-section mullions and iron stanchions. A late 19th-century dog-leg staircase with stick balusters was installed in the back of the passage, and the passage back doorway has been blocked.

Internally, plank and muntin screens with scratch mouldings to the muntin are found on either side of the passage, one doorway having been widened. A blocked hall fireplace exists. The former kitchen, in the lower room, features a fireplace at the lower end with a massive, unchamfered lintel and oven, along with two cross-beams with rough chamfers. The wing to the rear of the higher end has chamfered beams with bar stops, and the wing behind the passage displays a chamfered fireplace lintel. A stud partition on the first floor separates the chamber over the porch, and a doorway within the partition at the lower end of the chamber over the hall has ovolo moulded jambs with ogee stops – the doorhead is now missing. Some original roof trusses remain; these have straight principals with threaded purlins and notched lap joints for the now missing collars. Some of the purlins, the diagonal ridgepiece, and all the rafters have been replaced. An original truss is present over the porch.