2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office

10, The Post Office, The Village

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300378
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
List Entry Name:: 2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office
Statutory Address:: 10, The Post Office, The Village

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Date:: 2007-05-26
Reference:: IOE01/16222/04
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1300378
Date first listed:: 16-May-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 07-May-1992
List Entry Name:: 2 Low Fold, Low Fold Farm and 10 The Post Office
Statutory Address 1:: 10, The Post Office, The Village
Statutory Address 2:: 2, Low Fold
Statutory Address 3:: Low Fold Farm, Low Fold

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:: 10, The Post Office, The Village
Statutory Address:: 2, Low Fold
Statutory Address:: Low Fold Farm, Low Fold

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

District:: Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Kirkburton
National Grid Reference:: SE1655010412

Details

SE 11 SE 5/65

LOWER FOLD Thurstonland No. 2, and Low Fold Farm, and No 10 The Post Office (The Village)

(Formerly listed as Nos. 2 and 4 and The Post Office (No. 10 The Village))

II Formerly one farmhouse now divided. C17 altered. Thinly coursed rubble with quoins. Stone slate roof with gable copings on moulded kneelers. Two storeys. Central part with gabled cross-wing to each side giving an H-plan.

Late C18 or early C19 outshut to rear of house body. Later dwellings added to front gable of left wing. Entrance with chamfered surround, with a recent addition, to left of house body, to right is three-light double chamfered window, with the same to first floor. The left wing, within the later dwellings, has a blocked five-light double chamfered window formerly with hood-mould. The right wing formerly had one three-light double chamfered window to each floor, that to ground floor now altered, and one mullion is missing from upper floor. The right side elevation has central doorway (probably C18) and one three-light and one four-light double chamfered window, both altered, plus several recent windows and one blocked fire window.

The side elevation of the left wing (the Post Office) has late C18 openings with central doorway and three-light window to each side. Three three-light windows to first floor. All but ground floor right, have mullions removed.

Interior: chamfered and reed-moulded beams to house body.

Listing NGR: SE1655010412

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 341180
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.