Birchen Lee Carr And Attached Barn

A house, dating from the mid-17th century, along with an attached barn from 1886. The house is built of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. Originally a three-room through-passage plan, it includes an added rear kitchen wing, likely around 1673. A plinth is present, and a string course runs above the ground-floor windows. At the service end, there are two windows with two lights, lacking mullions, and one window above with a double-chamfered mullioned design of two lights. A doorway features a cyma moulded surround. Most other windows are double-chamfered mullioned. A three-light fire-window is also present. The next two bays project forward under coped gables with kneelers, topped by a roof with two spans. The front façade is described as impressive. A prominent housebody window of 16 lights, with three king mullions, provides light. An upper-floor window of five lights has a hoodmould with decorative stops. A rainwater chute projects between the gables. A parlour window of seven lights has a double-stepped window of three over five lights, also with a stepped hoodmould. The attached barn, slightly set back, has an elliptical arched cart entry, its keystone engraved "S C 1886." Above the cart entry is a circular pitching hole with four keystones. To either side are mistal doorways with a single light window and arrow slit ventilators. An eaves band and gutter brackets are visible. A return wall on the left side has a three-light chamfered mullioned window above which is a five-light double-chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould featuring scrolled label stops. The rear kitchen wing is ruinous, but retains all stonework, including that of a segmental arched fireplace. The hall range has a three-light chamfered mullioned window with a hoodmould, and a double-chamfered mullioned window of six lights above it, under a coped gable. The interior preserves bressumers, reeded spine beams with run-out stops, and a fireplace with a moulded shelf, a segmental arched lintel carried on corbelled jambs, and a moulded surround. The house is described as being of some distinction and prominent in the landscape, recognized as one of the finest examples of a Yeoman clothier's house in West Yorkshire.