Welcome
Arrive to a warm friendly welcome with tea and cake...
Relax in front of open fireplaces, curl up in squashy sofas or sit in the window seat and enjoy reading, music or watching tv.
History of Leigh House
Throughout history, English kings and queens have had unsettled love lives, and Elizabeth I was no exception. She never married, but it is said the only man she cared to marry was Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester: a brother of Lady Jane Grey's husband, Guildford Dudley. She called him "Sweet Robin", but knew her subjects would disapprove, so he remained, sadly, just a favourite.
Ley and Woolley was one of the old tithings of the Parish of Bradford. Leigh House, formerly Leigh Farm, is believed to be one of four farms granted to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, by Elizabeth I on 19th July 1574, and was a chief farm of the tithing.
The Bakehouse, probably used as the kitchen, originally separate, was joined to the main house in the 1700s.
There is also an orchard, duck pond and paddock with three friendly donkeys.
Leigh House today
Leigh House today sits in its own grounds of some five acres on the edge of the town and is the main part of a group of buildings made up of a 13th Century Bakehouse and Barn and a 16th Century farmhouse, arranged around a central courtyard.
