LOW FOLD

LOW FOLD, 1 AND 2, NEW ROAD SIDE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240122
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: LOW FOLD
Statutory Address:: LOW FOLD, 1 AND 2, NEW ROAD SIDE

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Date:: 2003-02-07
Reference:: IOE01/08893/03
Rights:: © Mr Geoffrey R. Handford. Source: Historic England Archive

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240122
Date first listed:: 07-Apr-1988
List Entry Name:: LOW FOLD
Statutory Address 1:: LOW FOLD, 1 AND 2, NEW ROAD SIDE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LOW FOLD, 1 AND 2, NEW ROAD SIDE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Horsforth
National Grid Reference:: SE 23216 37525

Details

HORSFORTH NEW ROAD SIDE SE 23 NW LS18 (south side, off) 8/142 Nos. 1 and 2, - Low Fold - II

Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. C17, enlarged and altered. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. L-shaped plan formed by 3-unit range on north-south axis with early addition to west side of south end. Two storeys; chamfered plinth; east front has inserted doorway (to No. 1) at junction of 2nd and 3rd units, a deeply-recessed 4-light chamfered mullion window to each side of this, both lacking the 1st and 3rd mullions; an irregular joint in the masonry to the left (perhaps the postion of a former doorway); a C19 window to the 1st unit and 3 similar windows at 1st floor. Left return wall (No. 2), in 2 builds; the right-hand half has a recessed mullioned window on each floor, like those to No. 1 but of 5 lights lacking the 1st and 4th mullions, and both under hoodmoulds with double-returned ends; a shall sundial between these windows; in the centre, an inserted doorway, and to the left of this a double-chamfered mullioned window of 6 lights (lacking the 1st, 3rd and 5th mullions), and a formerly 4-light window above (altered). Roof hipped at the angle, with a corniced chimney at the junction, and chimneys at both gables.

Interior: No.2 has in the right-hand room a beam with deep chamfer and cyma stops; No.1 has one beam in each room, with smaller chamfer and stops.

Listing NGR: SE2321637525

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Legacy System number:: 438085
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.