This was Lees Farm a century or more ago. It warrants inclusion in the West Riding volume of Nikolaus Pevsner's classic 'Buildings of England' series, which describes it as 'notable for the combination of a doorway with pediment on pilasters with mullioned windows', indicating 'any date between about 1700 and 1750 or 1760.'

Much older property on the site may have belonged to the Knights Hospitallers of the Order of St John in Jerusalem, who once maintained a steward in Lees.

Set back from the main road through Lees, this fine house looks less prominent nowadays, and its adjoining premises have since been rebuilt.

The space on its right is now occupied by another handsome building from a later era in the shape of the William and Sarah Midgley Almshouses, opened in 1937.