Lee Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Wight local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 January 1967. Farmhouse.
Lee Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- solitary-spire-willow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Isle of Wight
- Constituency
- Isle of Wight West MP: Richard Quigley (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 January 1967
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- Lee Farmhouse, Thorley Street, Shalfleet
- OS grid reference
- SZ 380 886
- Coordinates
- 50.69582, -1.46274
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Lee Farmhouse is a farmhouse that dates back to the early 17th century or earlier, originally designed as a lobby entrance house. It was extended to the southeast in the late 17th century and underwent alterations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The building is L-shaped and constructed of coursed stone rubble with a tiled roof. The lowest course of stone slates is hipped to the southwest wing, while the other wing has a gable end with kneelers. There is one cement rendered and one brick chimneystack.
The farmhouse has two storeys and attics, with three windows on each wing. The southwest wing features casement windows, while the southeast wing has two 19th-century cambered dormers. On the first floor, there are two 12-pane 20th-century casements set in original stone surrounds, along with a central Venetian window. The ground floor has a 19th-century sash window on the right side with verticals only, a 20th-century window on the left side, and a central doorcase with an 18th-century stone surround, though the door itself is from the 20th century. There is also a 19th-century lean-to extension.
The southwest front includes a former pump head that has been converted into a rainwater head, featuring the initials T.H and the date 1801. Inside, there is an office with an ovolo moulded spine beam, a late 17th-century round-headed corner china cabinet with pilasters, eight fielded panels, and serpentine shelves, as well as a 17th-century stone fireplace. The Blue Room, located in the angle of the L, contains an early 19th-century fireplace with engaged fluted columns and a duck's nest grate, along with two reeded window surrounds with paterae and a similar doorcase with a six-panelled door. The early 19th-century staircase features square balusters and a column newel, leading to a two-panelled door. The roof has angled queen struts with through purlins and an inserted ridgepiece. The kitchen includes a chamfered spine beam, stone mullioned windows, and a timber-framed partition wall.
Local climate
Lee Farmhouse receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 6 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 96% of listed buildings. Of these, 3 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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