Old Lemon House

SD 52NE WALTON-LE-DALE SEED LEE ROAD

5/129 Old Lemon House 24.3.1950 GV II

Farmhouse, early C17, now house and office. Brick (part rendered), stone plinth, quoins and dressings; slate roof with one ridge chimney- stack. L-shaped baffle-entry plan, the lst bay being a forward crosswing. Modern board door with restored dripmould at junction of 2nd and 3rd bays, another door in re-entrant of wing; double-chamfered stone mullioned windows at ground floor, with 4, 5, 3 and 2 lights; rendered brick mullioned windows at flat floor, with 4, 5, 3 and 3 lights. Left side wall has a brick band, 2 stone mullioned windows and a brick mullioned window; right gable has mullioned lst floor and attic windows with hoodmoulds. Rear wall has brick bands on 2 levels stepped over windows, which include one of 5 lights and three of 2 lights, with double-chamfered stone mullions, and there are 7 other windows with rendered brick mullions, and a door to 3rd bay. Interior: quarter-round stop moulded beams on both floors; inglenook with similar bressummer, a firewindow, and a stone fireplace with moulded and shouldered jambs and moulded cornice; in 3rd bay another stone fireplace with elaborately curved jambs and head.

Listing NGR: SD5729925105