Middle Lee Farmhouse

Middle Lee Farmhouse is a farmhouse that likely dates from the mid to late 17th century, with alterations made in the 18th century and a remodel in the late 19th or early 20th century. The building is rendered over stone rubble and cob, with stone rubble additions and a lean-to outshut added around 1900 featuring red-brick dressings. It has a gable-ended roof covered with scantle slate. The chimney stacks, which have later brick tops, are located at the gable ends and at the rear.

The farmhouse has a three-room and cross-passage layout facing south, with the ground falling to the left. The central hall has an external lateral stack at the rear, while the former inner room to the left features an external end stack. To the right is a wide former cross passage and service room, which is now the kitchen, with an integral end stack. A lean-to dairy at the rear was likely added in the 18th century, and a staircase was inserted in the cross passage, probably in the late 19th century. There is also a one-storey lean-to addition at the right-hand end, likely from the early 20th century. The farmhouse is two storeys tall, with the one-storey lean-to addition.

The exterior features an asymmetrically-fenestrated front with five windows on the first floor and three on the ground floor, all of which are early 20th-century two- and three-light wooden casements. A 20th-century half-glazed door leads into the cross passage, positioned between the first and second windows from the right. The lean-to on the right has a segmental-headed 19th-century boarded door.

Inside, the hall has a rough cross-beam and a reduced 17th-century fireplace at the rear with stone jambs and an ovolo-moulded wooden lintel, along with 18th-century cupboards on the left-hand wall and panelled doors. The former service room, now the kitchen, features a pair of plastered deep-chamfered cross beams with old hooks, a blocked large old fireplace with a plain wooden lintel, and likely an 18th-century cupboard to the left of the fireplace with a boarded door and H-L hinges. The left-hand ground floor has a fireplace with a plain wooden lintel, and the front window has continuous jambs that extend to floor level. The dairy in the rear lean-to includes slate shelves. The roof, dating from the 18th century, has seven bays with principal-rafter trusses.