Stockyard IV, Leighton Farm

Stockyard IV at Leighton Farm is a Grade II* listed structure consisting of four small yards surrounded by a cruciform arrangement of cow houses, with a threshing barn at the north end and a stable at the south end. The cow houses include a long north-south range and a double-depth east-west range. The ends of the east-west range are flanked by short single-storey wings at right angles, which were likely originally intended for pigs. The building is constructed of brick, featuring coped gables and a slate roof.

The west gable ends of the east-west range have bullseye openings above windows with segmental heads, along with a boarded stable door positioned between them. The northern and southern wings have pitched roofs and doorways in their gable ends, each with boarded stable doors. The east gables of the east-west range are supported by diagonal buttresses and feature round-headed arches that contain boarded doors with horizontal runners on the exterior wall. Between the gables, there is a boarded door beneath a concrete lintel, and above the valley between the roof pitches, an inserted vent ridge (mostly with weatherboarding) is set under a hipped slate roof. The short wings to the north and south have hipped roofs and boarded sliding doors in their respective north and south walls.