North Lee Farmhouse

NORTH MOLTON SS 72 NW 13/119 North Lee Farmhouse - GV II Farmhouse. Late C17 or early C18 with probably mid-to late C18 and C19 additions. Dressed sandstone (almost of ashlar quality) to ground floor with rendered cob to first floor; also rendered to sides and rear. Rendered coursed stone rubble additions to rear. Gable-ended slate roofs with C20 bitumen covering. Rendered stacks, with tops rebuilt in C19 red brick. Plan and development: Two-room central-entrance plan range, facing south. External end stacks. Central entrance hall with porch to front and staircase in continuous integral outshut to rear. Two gabled wings to rear, probably C18 additions, one with brick ridge stack. Two storeys. Exterior: Five-bay front; first-floor leaded wooden cross windows of c.1700 with stanchions and saddle bars; one opening metal casement to each window, all but one with larger leaded panes (larger-paned lights possibly later alterations). Ground- floor C20 plate-glass windows in old openings, with dressed-stone flat-arched heads. Central C19 nine-panelled door (top 3 panels glazed) with chamfered panels and chamfered frame. Probably c.1700 gabled dressed-stone porch with hollow-chamfered plinth and flat-arched entrance with shaped jambs; inside of porch has side benches within short flight of stone steps up to entrance. Rear: Outshut with C17 three- light leaded mullioned wooden casement lighting half-landing of staircase, the centre light an opening metal casement. C19 half-glazed door to right with 3 beaded-flush lower panels and 3-part rectangular overlight. Left-hand rear wing with first-floor C20 casement in gable end; the inner front with ground-floor C19 two-light wooden casement to right, boarded 2-light wooden casement to left and central boarded door; all openings with wooden lintels. The inner front of the right-hand wing has ground- floor 2-light wooden casement to left with brick jambs and boarded door to right, both with wooden lintels. Right-hand rear wing with first-floor C19 three-light wooden casement and 2 ground-floor 2-light wooden casements with wooden lintels. C19 one-storey lean-to additions to left-hand (west) end, altered in the C20. Interior: Cross beam (formerly cased) in left-hand ground-floor room (kitchen). Dog-leg stair in outshut at rear of entrance hall, with stick balusters and chamfered square newel post. First-floor rooms not inspected.

Listing NGR: SS7152929364