Bury Fold

The building is a farmhouse, dated 1675, and now divided into two dwellings. It is constructed from watershot coursed sandstone rubble with quoins. The roof is now tiled and pantiled, with two chimneys on the ridge and one at the left gable, and features gable copings with kneelers, except at the left gable. The original plan was a four-bay baffle-entry configuration, with two storeys, and a two-and-a-half storey porch to the second bay. The ground floor of the porch has a doorway offset to the left, with a large lintel, a small rectangular window to the right, and a very small peephole in the left side wall. The first floor of the porch, which oversails, has a square moulded recess where a datestone (now replaced) would have been situated above the door, an elaborately moulded, ogival-headed five-light window with moulded mullions and a hoodmould, and above this a recessed window of two round-headed lights, also similarly moulded with a hoodmould. Both of these upper windows have diamond leaded glazing. To the left of the porch, there is one five-light window on each floor, both formerly mullioned; the lower one has a hoodmould, while the upper one has stepped lights and a hoodmould that has been lengthened downwards. A modern two-storey lean-to extends from the left end, covering a blocked three-light window which retains hollow-chamfered mullions, and a former doorway with a chamfered surround. The rear and right end walls have been altered. A two-storey extension at the right side of the porch was recently demolished, exposing a two-light mullioned window lacking its mullion. The porch is to be taken down and rebuilt. Internally, the second bay contains a very large moulded stone arch inglenook and two stop-chamfered beams with run-out stops.