Stable at Seddon's Fold

Stable block of the 18th century with alterations from the 19th and 20th centuries, built principally of brick with a coursed sandstone eastern front and stone slate roof.

The building comprises two storeys with a three-bay northern range and a two-bay southern outshut, which is now single storey and set slightly back. The rear wall extends northward.

The stable forms the western side of a farmstead that also includes a house, cruck-barn, and byre, occupying the highest point at the western end of a tongue of land formed by the westernmost meander of the River Irwell where it is joined by the River Croal.

The principal elevation faces east. All openings are topped with pointed brick arches and keystones, with stone sills. The ground floor contains a central entrance with a lower window on either side, all with brick jambs. The first floor has three lunettes. The outer lunettes and the heads of the ground floor openings have been blocked with late 19th-century brick, and the central lunette is missing its sill. The inner brick skin of the wall is visible at the jambs. A partially surviving cogged brick cornice runs below the eaves. To the left and set back is the outshut. At ground floor it is of plain brick with stone quoins at the left and a timber beam across its full width, with metal sheet roofing above.

The left-hand gable of the principal block is constructed in English Garden Wall bond—four courses of stretchers between header courses—and is quoined into the stone front. A small opening exists at first floor. To the left, plaster and projecting bricks indicate the former first-floor location of the outshut. A narrow pointed opening has been inserted through the plastered wall area, and the eastern verge overhangs. The southern wall has been demolished and a timber partition set in at ground floor. To the left, the incomplete end of the rear wall projects.

The rear ground floor is concealed by modern lean-to shelters, but the rear wall is of brick in the same bond, extending the length of the extension and main block. It then continues northward for approximately three metres, approximately one metre below the eaves of the two-storey block. To the rear of the two-storey block this wall has two very low four-light windows with stone lintels and mullions, now blocked in brick. These are divided by the rear entrance, which has removed the mullion to either side. The dimensions suggest that originally this was a continuous nine-light window.

Returning to the left, a timber single-storey lean-to fills the angle between the projecting wall and the two-storey northern gable. The latter is patched with replacement bricks at the bottom left corner.

The roof contains both hewn and sawn members and comprises a single king-post truss bolted together, with a diamond-set ridge purlin and one row of side purlins. Ceiling beams are located at door head level, necessitating the blocking of the arches above. The walls have been rendered at low level. On the south wall, concrete and metal stall dividers provide accommodation for six cattle, with a drainage channel between the stalls and the passage from the entrance. The northern half of the ground floor was not accessible at inspection. In the south-west corner of the principal block, the former nine-light window is cut by the south wall, suggesting that the rear wall originally formed the front wall of an earlier building to the west. The interior of the outshut is divided into two loose-boxes with painted brick walls.