West Leys Steading

West Leys Steading is an earlier 19th-century courtyard steading, likely incorporating earlier materials and altered over time. It features a prominent cartshed and granary with an integral henhouse. The structure is built from coursed and random rubble, with dressed ashlar and squared rubble margins, and includes voussoirs. The roofs are slated.

On the west elevation, there are five segmental-headed cart arches with squat dividing piers, a small square opening to the outer left, and the slope of the henhouse roof to the outer right, with five granary openings above. The east elevation facing the courtyard has a door to the left and three granary openings above it, along with a lean-to henhouse to the outer left that has a door below a blocked high-level entry and a stone ledge. The north range adjoins at the outer right.

The south elevation features a gable end with a full-width projecting lean-to henhouse and a small segmental-headed opening, possibly for a kennel, close to the ground on the right.

Inside, the henhouse is lined with brick and stone nesting boxes. The east range, which serves as stables, has a lower piended bay to the south with rounded angles, and a variety of stable and pedestrian door and window openings on the east and west. The north elevation opening has been enlarged for modern machinery access, and the stable floor is made of cobbled setts.

The north range, used as an implement shed, has openings blocked on each elevation and features a large two-leaf sliding door to the south, with overlapping slates on the roof.