Leetside Farmhouse

Leetside Farmhouse is an earlier to mid-19th century farmhouse, with later additions and alterations, built in the Tudor Jacobean style influenced by William Burn. It is near square in plan, with a prominent, symmetrical three-bay entrance front projecting from the centre.

The farmhouse is constructed of coursed, stugged cream sandstone with polished and droved sandstone dressings. The sides and rear are of squared and snecked, tooled rubble sandstone, which is weathered in places. Features include a raised base course, a moulded string course, stepped hoodmoulds, skewed gableheads, and raised quoins. The openings have flush long and short surrounds, sandstone mullions, projecting cills.

The south-east (entrance) elevation has a gabled bay projecting at the centre, containing a timber panelled door with a plate glass fanlight. The door is recessed within a pilastered doorpiece with consoled brackets and a corniced canopy. A shallow, four-light canted oriel is corbelled out at first floor level. To the left and right are gabled bays, recessed from the central bay, with four-light canted windows at ground level. At first floor level, there are hoodmoulded bipartite windows, and blind, round-arched niches above.

The south-west (side) elevation displays the original three-bay block, with bipartite windows at ground level and single windows at first floor. A single, round-arched niche sits beneath an apex stack. Flanking bays are blank at both floors. A single storey, piended wing is set to the outer left.

The north-east (side) elevation mirrors the original three-bay block, with a lean-to addition adjoining the bay recessed to the outer right.

The north-west (rear) elevation has a boarded timber door at ground level and a stair window above. A gabled, two-bay wing extends to the left, with single windows at ground and first floors, and a small, offset window to the right of centre. A round-arched niche is centred beneath an apex stack. A lean-to addition is recessed to the outer left, and a single-windowed, single-storey, piended wing projects to the outer right, with a round-arched niche recessed at first floor beneath a surmounting apex stack.

The windows are predominantly timber sash and case windows with lying-pane glazing, although some plate glass glazing is present at the rear. The roof is covered in grey slate, with gablet coped skews, moulded skewputts, and cast-iron rainwater goods. Ridge and apex stacks have tall coped flues set diagonally above, some of which have been rebuilt in brick, topped with octagonal and circular cans.

The interior was not inspected in 1997.

The site is enclosed by rubble coped, random rubble sandstone boundary walls.