Dean Leys

Dean Leys is a house dating from the 16th to 17th century. It features a timber frame with whitewashed brick infill and an old tile roof. An external brick chimney is located at the far end, resting on a rubble stone base. The house has two storeys and two bays. On the ground floor, there are paired barred wooden casements, with the left one having a segmental head. The first floor contains barred horizontal sliding sash windows. The central entrance has a half-glazed door with a segmental head and a minimal board hood. To the right, there is a 20th-century single-storey extension made of whitewashed brick with some timbering, a tiled roof, and garage doors. Inside, the house retains original floor joists, stop-chamfered spine beams supported on curved brackets, and curved tension braces in the central truss. There are also fragments of wall paintings featuring Elizabethan script on the gable end wall of the far ground floor room and on the central partition at first floor level, although these are now mostly painted over.