Bank Fold Farmhouse And Cottage With Attached Barn

Bank Fold Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn is a farmhouse and cottage combined, with an attached barn and stable, dated 1765 on the stable. The building is constructed of coursed, thin sandstone rubble with a stone slate roof, stepped in two levels. It has one ridge chimney and another at the right gable. Built on a slope, the house and cottage occupy the higher ground and form a double-pile, three-bay arrangement, with the cottage being the first bay.

The house is two storeys and symmetrical, featuring a plain doorway with a rectangular fanlight, and two square windows on each floor, all with altered glazing. The cottage has a doorway on the left, with one window to each floor. The lower window of the cottage is a two-light design with a flush mullion, while the upper window is a sash. At the rear, each bay contains two openings on each floor: a door to the second bay, otherwise, all are square windows of four panes (some sash, others damaged). The cottage also has a two-light cellar window.

To the left is a three-bay barn with opposed wagon entrances in the centre, the front entrance featuring a straight wooden lintel protected by a two-course band. To the right is a projecting outshut stable which has a doorway in the side wall, a small opening to the loft, and above the loft an ashlar datestone, decoratively inscribed "Robert & th Eliza Yates 1765." Historical records indicate that Robert Yates, a local yeoman from a large Yates family, “rebuilt the old homestead at Bank Fold.” The building is listed as a good example of its type from this period.