Lower Lee, (Kenyon's) Farmhouse, and Barn Adjoining to North East is a Grade II listed building in the Lancaster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 May 1968. Farmhouse, barn. 2 related planning applications.
Lower Lee, (Kenyon's) Farmhouse, and Barn Adjoining to North East
- WRENN ID
- mired-courtyard-clover
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Lancaster
- Constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre MP: Cat Smith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 May 1968
- Type
- Farmhouse, barn
- Address
- Lower Lee, (Kenyon's) Farmhouse, and Barn Adjoining to North East, LA2 9BW
- OS grid reference
- SD 567 552
- Coordinates
- 53.99139, -2.6616
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lower Lee, also known as Kenyon's Farmhouse, is a house dating from 1694, which has been altered in the late 18th century. It is constructed of sandstone rubble and features a slate roof. The house is two storeys high and the earliest part consists of four bays. The windows have plain stone surrounds and are mostly sashed, except for those in the right-hand bay, which are sashed with glazing bars. The ground-floor window in this bay has paired sashes with a central stone mullion. The door, located in the third bay, has a moulded surround with a shaped lintel inscribed 'RHA 1694' and is topped with a hood. Drip courses have been cut back over both storeys.
To the right of the main house is a one-bay addition that also features sashed windows with glazing bars and plain stone surrounds. On the left side, an additional gable wall has been constructed against the original wall, likely to accommodate flues for added fireplaces. There are chimneys on the gables and to the right of the original house. Inside, the farmhouse has boxed beams, with one beam in the room to the right of the doorway positioned to have functioned as a firehood bressumer. The right-hand addition contains a fixed dresser with a moulded cornice and a row of pigeon holes along the bottom shelf.
The barn adjacent to the farmhouse on the right has breathers and a blocked door with a stone surround. The right-hand end of the barn is wider, slightly projecting forward, and includes a window with a stone surround. At the rear of the barn, there are two wide entrances: the left-hand one is within the wider end and the right-hand one features a concrete lintel. Lower Lee Farmhouse serves as a rear wing of Lower Lee and has late 18th-century windows with plain stone surrounds.
Local climate
Lower Lee, (Kenyon's) Farmhouse, and Barn Adjoining to North East sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,340 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 96% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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