Higher Red Lees Farmhouse

SD 53 SE CLIVIGER RED LEES ROAD

3/33 Higher Red Lees Farmhouse 1.4.1953 - II

Farmhouse. Dated 1631 internally; altered. Coursed squared sandstone, stone slate roof, stone coping with kneelers and apex finial at left gable. Two-unit plan with additional but integral through-passage at right hand end, behind main chimney stack; added lean-to porch and kitchen overlapping this end (modern addition to rear of left end not included). Two storeys; C19 doorway in C17 style inserted at junction of bays; original principal entrance at right hand end, now inside lean-to, has a triangular-headed chamfered doorway to the through-passage (a similar doorway at the rear end altered as a window); at ground floor, recessed chamfered mullion windows with hoodmoulds: 4, 5 and 4 lights (the last being a firewindow); at 1st floor, three 3-light chamfered flush mullion windows, and at the right hand end a chamfered single light. Left gable has a 3-light window on each floor towards the rear; right gable has a chamfered single light towards the rear at 1st floor; rear has the altered doorway at ground floor, and a 2-and a 3-light flush mullion window above. Two chimney stacks on the ridge. Interior: principal feature of interest is exceptionally deep firehood area with a 2-stage stud-and-plank heck wall protecting it from the original entry at the rear end of the through-passage, and very large stop-chamfered firehood bressummer; 2 similarly decorated beams, the further ends surrounded with remains of moulded plaster, and on the wall between them a moulded plaster shield lettered 1631 I.E (= John Eastwood). Reference: RCHM p.141.

Listing NGR: SD8727231264