Former Office and Stock Houses N of Poolton and Gortheur, Leighton Farm

This is a complex of former office and stock houses located north of Poolton and Gortheur, at Leighton Farm. The buildings date to the 18th century and possess group value due to their strong architectural and historic associations.

The main range is a single-storey building with a basement and a double-gabled front facing east. Attached to the north and south are wings. Behind the main range is a small shed and a former yard enclosed by a coped stone wall, now containing a modern shed. The buildings are constructed of brick on a rubble-stone basement, with slate roofs and coped gables on moulded kneelers. The main range features a round-headed doorway with a boarded door in the valley between the gables. To the right is a blocked doorway with a segmental head, and to the left, a boarded wooden door under a timber lintel. Bullseye windows are set within the gables.

The north wing has a central, wide boarded door with strap hinges, flanked by windows with fixed panes that are open with wooden battens above the sill. An axial brick stack rises to a tall moulded pot on the left side. The south wing is longer and features, in the centre, full-height boarded double doors with strap hinges and white brick jambs. To the right is a fixed light beneath the wall plate, also open with battens above the sill, and a plainer full-height door. A former office is located to the left of the central doorway, containing a 12-pane sash window. A higher, gabled outer bay to the south has copings on moulded kneelers, double boarded doors with strap hinges beneath a later steel lintel, and a raised gabled vent now boarded. An axial stack and skylights are present to the left of centre in the south wing.

At the rear of the main range are two large round-headed doorways leading to the basement, above which are three stepped round-headed windows in each bay. The north wing has a full-height opening leading to Stockyard III. The yard behind the main range contains a small, single-storey shed, possibly originally designed for a bull but now a stable, attached to the hay shed of Stockyard III to the north. The shed now has stable doors on its east side, and a low boarded door is inserted into the adjacent boundary wall, set within a brick surround.

The basement of the main range is supported by timber stops-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops and thin cast iron columns. Though not accessible during inspection, the basement is said to contain hooks consistent with its former use as tack rooms.