Lacey Hey Cottage Lacey Hey Farmhouse

Lacey Hey Farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings with an attached cottage, probably dates to the middle of the 17th century, with a reset datestone reading “RW/1672”. The building was restored and altered around 1978. It is constructed of thinly-coursed rubble, with a stone slate roof. Originally three cells wide (five first-floor windows), it was formerly arranged with a through-passage. An outshut is located to the rear right, and an early 18th-century wing to the rear centre was demolished and replaced with a c.1978 outshut. A left-hand bay was extended to the rear around 1978.

The south (garden) front features a chamfered plinth and quoins. A quoined doorway is positioned to the right of the left-hand cell, formerly within a gabled porch from which the datestone has been reset above the doorway. The ground-floor windows are double-chamfered mullioned; the first cell has 9 lights (with 2 mullions removed on the ground floor, and 4 and 2 lights above). The second cell, initially heightened for farm use in the 19th century, but rebuilt to its present form around 1978, has 9 lights with a transom and king mullions to the ground floor, and 2 and 4 lights above. The third cell has 6 lights with a transom and king mullion to the ground floor, and 5 lights above. A continuous dripmould steps at the doorway. Shaped kneelers and coping are present. End stacks are located to the right, with a ridge stack between the first and second cells and another near the left end, all dating to c.1978. An added pent porch is situated at the right end.

The rear has a 17th-century outshut. A doorway on the left features a chamfered arch-cut lintel. Double-chamfered mullion windows are present; along the right, there are 2 lights (with the mullion removed) and 4 lights, while to the left of a c.1978 door there are 2 lights. A central c.20th-century outshut reuses 18th-century mullion windows. A gabled wing was built out on the right around 1978. The left return has a blocked three-light, double-chamfered mullion window under a hoodmould. The right return incorporates a dripmould returning from the front as a string terminating in a carved stop, above which is a blocked two-light chamfered mullion window. Adjacent to the outshut are a three-light, double-chamfered mullion window and a two-light chamfered mullion window above.

The interior of the central housebody has a chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway. The kitchen on the right has stop-chamfered spine beams with run-out stops. On the first floor, there is one stop-chamfered quoined doorway, and between the outshut and the main range, one beam with a grooved soffit, likely indicating a former partition wall. Some roof timbers have been replaced.