Bank Fold Farmhouse and Cottage With Attached Barn
BANK FOLD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN, BANK FOLD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260438
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Fold Farmhouse and Cottage With Attached Barn
- Statutory Address:
- BANK FOLD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN, BANK FOLD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260438
- Date first listed:
- 27-Sept-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Bank Fold Farmhouse and Cottage With Attached Barn
- Statutory Address 1:
- BANK FOLD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN, BANK FOLD
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:
- BANK FOLD FARMHOUSE AND COTTAGE WITH ATTACHED BARN, BANK FOLD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Blackburn with Darwen (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Yate and Pickup Bank
- National Grid Reference:
- SD 71770 24247
Details
SD 72 SW YATE AND PICKUP BANK BANK FOLD
5/142 Bank Fold Farmhouse and cottage with attached barn - - II
Farmhouse and cottage in one, with attached barn and stable, dated 1765 on stable. Coursed thin sandstone rubble, stone slate roof on 2 levels with one chimney on the ridge and another at the right gable. Built on slope, the house and cottage at the higher level: these are double-pile and make 3 bays, the cottage being the 1st bay. Two storeys; house is symmetrical: plain doorway with rectangular fanlight, 2 square windows on each floor, all with altered glazing; cottage has doorway on left, one window on each floor, the lower of 2 lights with a flush mullion and the upper sashed. At the rear each bay has 2 openings on each floor: a door to the 2nd bay, otherwise all square windows of 4 panes (some sashed, others damaged); and the cottage has a 2-light cellar window. Three-bay barn to left has opposed wagon entrances to the centre, that at the front with a straight wooden lintel protected by a 2-course band, and on the right a projecting outshut stable which has a doorway in the side wall, a small opening to the loft, and above this an ashlar datestone decoratively inscribed:
Robert & th Eliza Yates 1765
(Robert Yates, yeoman, one of numerous Yates families in this township, "rebuilt the old homestead at Bank Fold": Abram Blackburn pp. 763-4) Listed as good example of its type at this period.
Listing NGR: SD7177024247
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440725
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Abram, W A, History of Blackburn, (1877), 763-764
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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