Ley Farmhouse

Built of brick enclosing a cruck-framed structure, and painted, with a concrete tile roof. Three bays, comprising a central living room, opening to a kitchen in the E end bay, and a parlour behind an axial stack. Canted bay windows to the living room and parlour linked by a continuous roof over the doorway, and bow window to the kitchen. Two dormers on the S, 3 to the front, to be replaced with smaller gabled dormers. The N front has a lean-to former dairy and a modern glazed porch containing the main C20 entrance door. Gable stack. The extension (incomplete at Jan 1998) is of brick, with a pitched roof, to be slated. The S side has a door opposite the stack, and cut stone quoins at the SE corner.

Two major cruck trusses survive, one originally open with ogee shaped blades springing from a sill at low level, and knee braces to the collar. Apex butted vertically. The hall was floored over in the C17, the cross ceiling beam chamfered with bold ogee stops, and similar stops to the minor joists. The roof was probably raised to provide an attic storey at the same time, a rafter on the back of the blades reducing the roof pitch, and carrying the raised trenched purlins. Chamfered cross beam in the parlour end. The W gable end has square panel framing set above a high sill wall of stone, infilling the frame below the sharply elbowed end cruck couple. Mortices for windbraces present, the braces removed when the roof was raised. Axial stack with a high-set fire lintel.