Higher Red Lee Farmhouse

SD 62 SW TOCKHOLES RED LEE

3/71 Higher Red Lee Farmhouse (formerly listed as Red Lee Farmhouse) (house on east of group all called Red Lee) 27.8.1952 GV II

Farmhouse, dated 1674 on porch, now house. Coursed sandstone rubble with quoins, stone slate roof with gable copings and kneelers, chimney on the ridge at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays. Typical 3-bay baffle-entry 2½- storey house with full height gabled porch at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, lean-to outshut to rear of 1st and 2nd bays. Doorway (offset to right) with moulded surround and moulded hoodmould, stone side bench and inner doorway with tongue-stopped chamfered surround and heavily studded door; above the door a square datestone lettered R A E (= Richard and Elizabeth 1674 or Ellen Aspden), at 1st floor a 4-light window with a hoodmould (lacking 2 mullions), and in the gable a round-headed light with hollow spandrels, a dripstone in the apex; left side wall of porch has a round-headed stairlight. Otherwise, 3 windows each floor, all originally double-chamfered stone mullioned withhoodmoulds, but lacking all mullions except one: to the left, 3 and 4 lights at ground floor, 3 and 3 above; to the right, 3 lights at ground floor and 2 above. Left gable wall has small ground floor window, former 3-light window at 1st floor, and a mullioned 3-light attic window; right gable wall has a stepped 3-light window with stepped hoodmould, a 3-light 1st floor window with a hoodmould (both these lacking mullions), and a mullioned 2-light attic window: rear has some windows which were formerly mullioned. Interior: inglenook with stone heck, chamfered bressummer, remains of old wattle-and-daub smoke hood visible in a cupboard, small firewindow and recess for saltcupboard; beams with tongue-stopped ¼-round moulding; partitions to 1st bay removed; chamfered stone parlour fireplace in 3rd bay; dog-leg stone stairs in porch; timber-framed 1st floor partition; roof trusses with collars and raked struts. (House forms a group with Red Lee Farmhouse to the west (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SD6477622786