The Farm

LEEDS

SE23NE 714-1/6/1235 22/09/75

WEETWOOD MILL LANE, Weetwood (South side) The Farm (Formerly Listed as: WEETWOOD MILL LANE, Weetwood (East side) The Farm)

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Formerly known as: Weetwood nurseries and the Farm including outbuildings immediately to south WEETWOOD LANE. Farmhouse. C17 with mid C19 alterations and 1988 conversion. Rendered, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 bays, rear outshut. Central entrance with C20 porch; 4-light recessed chamfered mullion window to left, ground and 1st floor; 4-pane sash right, inserted window 1st-floor centre. Brown brick stack right. INTERIOR: 2 ground-floor rooms, both with spine beam, the left beam has a scarfed joint indicating site of a timber-framed fire hood. Stairs opposite entrance, alongside a timber-framed partition wall, the cross beam and studs visible in 1st-floor room, right. Part of the farm complex which was part of the Englefield estate, sold with Weetwood Lodge (qv) and 160 acres in 1858. The sale date is the likely date for the 4-pane sashes; the ground floor right mullioned window reset on the upper floor (eaves raised). Benjamin Wilson farmed Weetwood Farm in 1888. (Douglas J, Victorian Society (pers.comm.) 1992; Kelly's Directory of Leeds: 1888-).

Listing NGR: SE2753637609