Lower East Lee and Attached Barn is a Grade II* listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 November 1966. House.

Lower East Lee and Attached Barn

WRENN ID
empty-turret-martin
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
22 November 1966
Type
House
Address
Lower East Lee and Attached Barn, East Lee Lane, Todmorden, OL14 8RW
OS grid reference
SD 960 254
Coordinates
53.72555, -2.06192
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

This is a large, impressive house with an attached barn, dating back to 1610, with a porch added around 1631 and a barn added in the early 18th century. The house is constructed of dressed stone, with the barn having watershot stone and both have stone slate roofs. It has a 3-room through-passage plan with a projecting, 2-storey gabled porch.

The front of the house has four bays of unequal width. The left-hand side features a double chamfered mullioned window of four lights, with a matching window above. A long run of twelve lights forms a double chamfered mullioned window over. Some original hollow chamfered mullions remain, while others have a simpler chamfer. The third bay is the projecting porch, featuring a lintel with an ogee arch, decorated jambs, and finely moulded stone surround with fleur-de-lys carvings and an inscription reading 'Es, 27.OCTO.1631'. Above the lintel is a double chamfered mullioned and transomed window with a hood mould of six lights, surmounted by a columbarium and an arched light with spandrels. A coped gable has kneelers and a crocketed finial. Return walls have small chamfered windows, one square-headed and one arched. The fourth bay features two slightly chamfered mullioned windows of two lights; the wall between these was opened to create a larger window, with the removal of the mullions. A similar two-light window above has had the sill removed and the window lengthened. Initially, the house was planned as a parlour, housebody, through passage, and service end with simpler window detailing. The roof has three stacks, two original 17th-century stacks (one on the left-hand gable and one above the third bay), and one 18th-century stack on the right-hand gable, all coped with kneelers.

Attached to the right-hand gable, flush with the front but with a lower roofline, is the barn. It has a semi-circular arched cart entry with decorative jambs and a Venetian window above with a projecting false keystone. To the left is a 6-light flat-faced mullioned window that has been divided into two windows and a doorway. To the right is a doorway to a mistal with tie stones. The barn has a coped gable. The interior of the barn consists of three bays with a wide span of Queen post roof construction.

The rear of the house retains original chamfered mullioned windows, and a return wall features a two-light window with a heavy square lintel bearing the initials 'WM'. Inside the house, the through passage has an arch supporting a stack with early 19th-century punched stonework. The housebody has a large segmental arch to the fireplace with a moulded surround, leading to a square opening to a domed beehive oven. Spine beams have scarf joints, revealing evidence of a former bressumer for a firehood. The parlour has finely stop-chamfered spine beams and floor joists, and a king block roof.

Local climate

Lower East Lee and Attached Barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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