Former Office and Stock Houses N of Poolton and Gortheur, Leighton Farm is a Grade II* listed building in the Powys local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 20 March 1998. A Restoration House.

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

WRENN ID
grim-soffit-oak
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Powys
Country
Wales
Date first listed
20 March 1998
Type
House
Period
Restoration
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Single-storey and consisting of a double-gabled main range (with basement) facing E, to which wings are attached to N and S. Behind main range is a small single-storey shed and a former yard bounded by a coped stone wall (within which is now a large modern shed). Of brick on a rubble-stone basement, and with slate roofs and coped gables on moulded kneelers. The main range has a round-headed doorway with boarded door in the valley between the gables, to R of which is a blocked doorway under segmental head, and to L is a boarded wooden door under a timber lintel. In the gables are bullseye windows. The N wing has a central, wide boarded door under a timber lintel and with strap hinges, with windows under segmental heads to L and R. The windows have fixed panes and are open with wooden battens above the sill. To L is an axial brick stack with a tall moulded pot. The S wing is longer and has, in centre, full-height boarded double doors with strap hinges and white brick jambs, to R of which is a fixed light beneath the wall plate (open with battens above the sill) and a plainer full-height door. To L of central doorway is the former office. This has a 12-pane sash window, to L of which (beyond an attached brick wall) is a round-headed doorway with a boarded door. A higher outer bay to S is gabled with copings on moulded kneelers, and has double boarded doors with strap hinges beneath a later steel lintel, and a raised gabled vent now boarded. To L of centre in S wing is an axial stack (and skylights).

To rear of main range are 2 large round-headed doorways to the basement, above which are 3 stepped round-headed windows in each bay. The N wing has a full-height opening leading to Stockyard III. In the yard behind the main range is a small single storey shed, possibly designed for a bull but now a stable, attached to the hay shed of Stockyard III to the N. The shed now has stable doors on E side, and in adjacent boundary wall is an inserted low boarded door in a brick surround.

The basement of the main range is supported on timber beams and thin cast iron columns. Otherwise not accessible at the time of inspection although said to contain hooks consistent with its use as tack rooms.

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