Description

YALDING LEES ROAD TQ 6949 (South-east side) 7/166 Lees House 23-5-67 II

Farmhouse, now house. Late C16 or early C17 with late C18 or early C19 facade and additions. Timber framed. Channelled render to front elevation. Ground floor of left gable end painted brick, first floor rendered. Right gable end has exposed framing to ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret, on rendered plinth. Continuous jetty, underbuilt to about half its depth, and returned to right. Eaves cornice of paired Ionic modillions. Half-hipped roof. Red and grey brick rear stacks to left and right, the latter projecting on stone base with red brick dressings. Base of right stack extended to right, possibly for later bread oven. Regular 3-window front of twelve-pane sashes; two outer sashes in rendered two-storey canted bays with side-lights, central sash in open box. Similar sashes to ground floor of canted bays. Central half- glazed and panelled door with flanking side-lights, under broad Doric porch. Ground floor of right gable end has exposed framing with tension braces, two studs morticed for bay or oriel window, and three or four-light mullioned frieze windows with diamond subsidiary mullions, all behind mid- C20 lean-to with plain tile roof. Two-storey rear return wing to left with tile-hung first floor, two twelve-pane sashes in open boxes to left side, and rear gable with stack. Shorter two-storey red brick rear wing or turret to centre, adjoining left wing, with similar-height eaves and plain- tile roof. Single-storey L-plan former stables running back from, but not quite touching, rear elevation of main range, adjoining right side of central wing and returning to left, ending level with rear left wing; chequered red and grey brick on stone plinth, with dentilled eaves, plain tile roof, boarded door and two small windows towards front end of right side and two small paned lights and three stable doors to rear. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ6934449712

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