Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage
LOWER FOLDS COTTAGE, GREEN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133973
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FOLDS COTTAGE, GREEN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1133973
- Date first listed:
- 06-Jun-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER FOLDS COTTAGE, GREEN LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- LOWER FOLDS FARMHOUSE, GREEN LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FOLDS COTTAGE, GREEN LANE
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER FOLDS FARMHOUSE, GREEN LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Stainland and District
- National Grid Reference:
- SE0801818366
Details
SE 080183
3/40
ELLAND
(0FF) GREEN LANE
Sowood
Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage
II
House. Early C17 hall and cross-wing, with early C19 addition. Thin coursed
Elland flags with larger dresser stone details, stone slate roof. 2-storey
front, single storey aisle to rear of hall range. Front has gabled cross-wing,
with garage made into ground floor. Depressed tudor arch-headed doorway with
moulded jambs at junction of wing with main range. 6-light chamfered mullioned
window (3 mullions removed) to main housebody. Large quoins to angles. Above
is late C18 4-light mullioned window and similar inserted in gable in keeping.
Right hand return wall has single arch-headed window with 2-light chamfered
mullioned window over. Left hand return wall is rendered. Rear gable rendered
with revealed quoins, has two late C18 2-light mullioned windows with 4-light
window over (some mullions removed) - Gable has triple string course of
projecting slates probably for pigeon columbarium surmounted by crocketed finial
(to both gables). Aisle roofed continuously has chamfered mullioned windows of
3 and 2 lights (both with mullions removed). Built onto main range is later
2-storey building with the main feature of large taking-in door at first floor
(now blocked) originally with outside staircase. Rear has 4-light and 2-light
flat faced mullion windows to each floor. Stone gutter brackets survive to
front. Main range has large dressed chimney stack to ridge to right of entry
end.
Interior: has Tudor-headed fireplace backing onto through passage in cross-wing,
kitchen has re-used tiebeam with half-lap joints from cruck building, and re-used
cruck-blade as arcade plate to rear aisle; both gables to wing have exposed
king-post truss built into the stonework, probably from earlier C16 timber framed
building.
Listing NGR: SE0801818366
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338464
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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