Lower East Lee And Attached Barn

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.