White Lee Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Farmhouse.
White Lee Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- swift-spindle-peregrine
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Constituency
- Macclesfield MP: Tim Roca (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Farmhouse
- Address
- White Lee Farmhouse, Wincle, Cheshire East
- OS grid reference
- SJ 955 644
- Coordinates
- 53.177, -2.06875
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
White Lee Farmhouse is an early 17th-century farmhouse that has been altered and extended on the right side in the mid-19th century. It is constructed of reddish-buff rubble sandstone, mostly coursed, and features Kerridge stone-slate roofs. The original 17th-century section has a cross-gable design and consists of two storeys plus an attic. The right wing, also two storeys, retains remnants of an oak frame within its random rubble walling at the inner end, while the rest is from the 19th century.
The stone-mullioned windows in the cross-gable wing are double chamfered. On the front gable, there are two lower storey windows (the left one has three lights, while the right is truncated by a later buttress and now has two lights) and evidence of a former doorway nearly in the centre. The upper storey originally had a three-light window (with the mullions removed) and a small blocked window to the right. The attic features a square window that was formerly two-light. On the left end, there is a six-light window on the lower storey and a two-light window on the upper storey to the right, with a formerly three-light window (mullions removed) to the left. The rear gable has one window on each storey, originally five lights on both the lower and upper storeys, but with two mullions removed from the upper. The attic has a square window that was formerly two-light. The cross-wing windows have cavetto labels, except for the lower storey at the front, and there are later vernacular timber casements. An oak lintel is present over a partly blocked broad opening at the inner end of the right wing, which now contains a door and a small window. Exposed oak purlin-ends can be seen in the cross-gable.
Inside the cross-wing, the lower storey features three main oak beams; the front beam is slotted, possibly for a former screen, while the central and rear beams have stopped ovolo moulds. A cross-beam indicates a former inglenook against the inner wall. The structure includes oak purlins and a truss with later queen-struts. There is mention of a spiral stair, although the current plain stair is located in the right wing. The internal mullions are bevelled.
Local climate
White Lee Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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