Ley Mary Farmhouse

This is a semi-detached farmhouse, likely dating to the late 17th century, with alterations in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is constructed of coursed squared and dressed limestone, featuring an ashlar facade. The front roof has stone slate, while the rear has concrete tile. The stacks have been restored and rendered in the 20th century. The building follows a ‘T’ shape, with a rectangular core at right angles to the road, and a staircase projection at the rear. It has rusticated quoins and a flat-chamfered plinth, two storeys, an attic, and a cellar beneath the original core. The facade was likely added in the 18th century. The front has a three-window arrangement, including a cross wing on the left. It features two and three-light stone-mullioned casement windows with beaded mouldings. A 19th-century six-panel door is set within a beaded architrave. There is a two-light stone-mullioned casement in the gable end facing the road, and two stone-mullioned casements with flat and hollow-chamfered stone mullions in the rear wall, providing light to the cellar. A two-light stone-mullioned casement is located in the stairs projection. At the rear of the range parallel to the road, there are 19th-century three-light segmental-headed windows. The gable ends have flat and saddleback copings that terminate in moulded kneelers. Interior features include a cellar with a flag floor and tie beams with ogee stops, a dog-leg staircase with late 17th-century turned balusters with pendants, and a stone ‘Tudor’-arched fireplace, probably dating to the 19th century.