Stockyard IV, Leighton Farm

Consisting of 4 small yards enclosed by a cruciform block of cow houses and the threshing barn and stable at N and S ends respectively. The cow houses consist of a long N-S range and a double-depth E-W range. The ends of the E-W range are flanked by short single-storey wings at right angles, probably originally intended for pigs. Of brick with coped gables and slate roof. The W gable ends of the E-W range have bullseye openings above windows with segmental heads, and a boarded stable door between. The wings to N and S have pitched roofs and doorways in the gable ends with boarded stable doors. The E gables of the E-W range have diagonal buttresses and round-headed arches within which are boarded doors with horizontal runners on the exterior wall. Between the gables is a boarded door beneath a concrete lintel, and above the valley between the roof pitches is an inserted vent ridge (mostly with weatherboarding) under a hipped slate roof. The short wings to N and S have hipped roofs and boarded sliding doors in the N and S walls respectively.