The Leam

The Leam is shown on the 1848 Tithe Plan of Hedworth and on the first edition Ordnance Survey map as a collection of buildings grouped around the end of a track coming from the northeast, to the southeast of the Bowes Railway (HER1005) and the Wrekendyke (HER277). The principal barns and gingang lie to the west, whilst the house and garden are to the southeast. By the time of the second edition Ordnance Survey map, four ranges of barns with a gingang at the western corner have bene built forming a courtyard to the north, whilst the former barns appear to have been replaced by a new range. This and the farmhouse appear to survive today.