Leigh Court

Leigh Court is a rectory, now a dwelling, built around 1837. It features a rendered exterior over rubble with a shallow pitch hipped slate roof, boxed eaves, a renewed moulded cornice, and roughcast stacks flanking the central bay. The building has a double pile layout facing west, with a service wing set back to the north-east. It stands two storeys tall with a 2:1:2 bay arrangement. The centre bay slightly projects forward and has a pedimented top that rises through the eaves, with pilaster quoins. The first floor has 12-pane sash windows with moulded architraves that are lugged and have sills supported by console brackets. The ground floor features console brackets beneath the projecting lintels, a central projecting canted Ionic porch, and a curved entrance facade wall with blind niches and pilaster responds flanking a panelled door, originally two-leaf, with a rectangular leaded light.

The right return (south front) has a 1:3:1 bay arrangement with a central full height projecting canted bay. The first floor has 12-pane sashes, while the ground floor includes a left inserted 20th-century French window, a central window altered in the 20th century, and an end bay on the right with a flat roofed hexagonal bay featuring many paned lights.

Inside, the main feature is the full height staircase hall, which has a screen of Ionic columns and entablature on three sides at ground floor level, a Corinthian column screen leading to the first floor gallery, and an unusual wrought iron balustrade decorated with serpents and C scrolls on the cantilever stone stair. There is also a conservatory opening off the hall on the east front. The house is said to have been built by the rector, the Reverend Henry Tippetts Tucker, after a fire destroyed the earlier rectory and manor house around 1837.