Lee Gate Farm
Lee Gate Farm
It is probable that Lee Gate Farm is on the site of ‘Hawthorne Leys’ mentioned in the rental documents of Fountain’s Abbey. On the lintel above the former shippon there is a date B 1696. During renovation work a stone was found in good condition S W 1 1642 and it is now fixed above the back door. When the house was re-roofed around 1960, Thorntons, the slaters from Skipton, said the roof had been formed at three different times. The house previously had a large inglenook fireplace with a window in the recess. There is a traditional dairy with long blue slate slabs. From 1841 – 1881 Henry and Jane Sharp, together with their family, Elizabeth, Robert, Mary Jane, Thomas and Arabella, lived there. 1881 – 1927 it was the home of John and Nanny Nelson and their family of four sons and four daughters. From 1927 onwards it has been farmed by successive generations of the Carr family.
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