Greenwood Lee

Greenwood Lee is a large yeoman clothier's house, with a porch dated 1712, likely contemporary with the whole building. It is constructed of dressed stone with a stone slate roof and rises two storeys.

The house follows a three-room through-passage plan, forming an F-shape to the front and T-shape to the rear, with a kitchen wing set at right angles to the hall. All ground floor windows feature deep chamfering with cavetto mullions, arched lights and sunken spandrels. The service end displays a five-light window with a six-light flat-faced mullioned window above.

The gabled porch is a notable feature, with copings, kneelers and carved pineapple finials, a weathered plinth, and a scrolled plinth to the doorway with a richly moulded architrave. A date plaque above the doorway is inscribed "R G S" and records "Robert and Grace Sutcliffe 1712". The doorway itself now forms a two-light window, having been altered, and is protected by an early 20th-century glass and wood porch. The porch chamber above contains a double chamfered mullioned and transomed stepped window of three over five lights, with a hoodmould featuring decorative stops.

The housebody has a seven-light window, with a two-light flat-faced mullioned window to the left of a six-light double chamfered mullioned window on the first floor. The parlour wing breaks forward and features a five-light window with a matching five-light double chamfered mullioned window above. It has a coped gable with kneelers and ball finials. The right-hand return wall of the wing contains an extruded stack with rainwater spouts flanking a six-light chamfered mullioned window with a four-light window above on the first floor. A large extruded stack rises to the rear gable of the wing. The rear kitchen wing has a coped gable with kneelers and ball finials, and contains seven-light and two-light chamfered mullioned windows with arched lights, sunken spandrels and cavetto mullions, with a six-light double chamfered mullioned window above on the first floor. The service end rear has a doorway with a deeply roll-moulded surround, a two-light flat-faced mullioned window above, and a three-light cavetto-moulded mullion window with a five-light window above, the latter featuring arched lights and sunken spandrels. Three stacks rise to the ridge.

Interior features include a wide segmental arched fireplace in the housebody with cyma-moulded surround and scrolled stops. The entrance hall contains an open-string staircase with risers treated as imposts and paired turned balusters to each riser; a similar copy exists in the housebody. The parlour has an elaborate Victorian marble fireplace and moulded plaster ceiling, while the chamber above has a coved plaster ceiling. The porch chamber retains its original fireplace with stop-chamfered surround.

A significant feature is the narrow full-height space, now a cellar, which divides the service end from the main house, probably from around 1780. This space formerly housed a waterwheel set in a sunken pit with overflow and channel, believed to have powered textile machinery used in an adjacent first-floor room. The rear wing contains a wide segmental arched fireplace with large skewbacks and cyma-moulded surround.

Greenwood Lee is perhaps the latest of the 17th-century type of clothier's residences in the Upper Calder Valley exhibiting an F-plan, and is the only known house in the area that possessed its own waterwheel.