Westleigh Farmhouse Including Outbuilding And Well Head Immediately North

Westleigh Farmhouse is an 18th-century farmhouse, likely rebuilt around the early 19th century and potentially incorporating elements of an earlier structure. It is constructed of stone rubble with red brick dressings and has a two-span slate roof with stone coped gable ends, topped by brick gable-end stacks.

The house follows a double-depth plan, with a kitchen to the left and a parlour to the right of a central entrance passage leading to a stair hall, and service rooms at the rear. A western range features a large fireplace containing a reset 17th-century bressumer.

The south front presents a nearly symmetrical three-bay façade with 19th-century 16-pane sash windows set within cambered brick arches and brick jambs. A central doorway features a brick round arch, a semi-circular traceried fanlight, and a flush-panel door. The east side has a large round-headed stair window with glazing bars. The rear north side has 19th-century casements and sash windows, also with glazing bars. A doorway on the west side of the main range has a fielded panel and glazed door. A lower western range has a wide doorway on its south front with a studded plank door.

The interior remains exceptionally intact with original 18th- and 19th-century features, including fielded-panel doors, architraves, dado rails, chimneypieces, cupboards, staircases, screens, and grilles. The kitchen has a large fireplace with a moulded chimneypiece and a cupboard with panelled doors and drawers to its left. The parlour has a dado rail, a Victorian chimneypiece, and a pair of china cupboards with shaped shelves, panelled and glazed doors, and a key-motif frieze to its architrave. The hall has a panelled door to the service end, featuring a Chinoisserie panel and grille. The dairy contains stone shelves. The main open-well staircase has stick balusters, column newels, and a ramped moulded handrail. Bedchambers, some with chimneypieces, include one with a Georgian iron grate, and others contain cupboards with drawers below. The attic stairs have column newels and stick balusters. The main range has a 7-bay tenoned purlin roof with queen-post trusses and angle-struts, king-post trusses at the east end, two tiers of tenoned purlins, and common-rafters. A large former kitchen in the western range has chamfered cross-beams with hollow step-stops, a large fireplace containing a reset early 17th-century moulded timber bressumer, an oven, and a boiler to the left; a loft floor above is open to the roof. Stone flag floors cover much of the ground floor.

Adjacent to the rear north side is a stone domed well-head and a small stone outbuilding with a corrugated-iron sheet roof with gabled ends. This outbuilding has a central doorway and flanking windows with iron bars, with a reset 17th-century chamfered timber two-light window above, and a tenoned-purlin roof structure with common-rafters and battens.

Westleigh Farmhouse is a remarkable survival, largely unaltered since the 19th century, and complete with the majority of its original internal joinery and other features.