Byre at Seddon's Fold

This is a late 17th-century byre with accommodation and storage above. It is constructed from dressed, coursed sandstone with quoins and a stone flag roof laid in diminishing courses.

The building forms the eastern side of a farmstead that also includes a house, cruck-barn, and stable. It is situated on the highest point of a piece of land formed by the River Irwell and the River Croal.

The west elevation features three low entrances, two of which are blocked, a blocked window with an arched lintel, a blocked first-floor window with one mullion (probably originally three lights), and a further blocked small window. Numerous original vents have been blocked or inserted. The quoins are long but not regularly patterned.

The north elevation includes a first-floor entrance with a stone lintel that also acts as a kneeler for a coped gable (the copings are missing). A square pitching hole with a monolithic lintel and slab jambs is present, supported by impost stones, although the central sill stone is absent. A ground-floor entrance to the feeding passage has a low monolithic lintel, and a blocked, high-quality three-light mullion window with chamfered arched lintels is centrally located, which may be a reused feature from an earlier building.

The east elevation has two small blocked ground-floor windows. The quoins alternate regularly, except where a lintel obstructs the pattern next to the southern feeding passage door.

The south elevation incorporates a large inserted opening near the feeding passage. The gable has been rebuilt using original materials and features a louvred opening with a stone sill. The east kneeler is broken, and both the coping and west kneeler are missing.

The interior retains blocked openings, vents, and niches, plus two corbels, possibly related to a staircase. The roof structure includes hewn members with collar-and-tie-beam trusses, raking struts, entrenched side purlins, diamond-set ridge purlins, and rafters. The north truss has mortices for internal partitioning, and remnants of plaster remain on the NW wall at first floor. An inserted structure of telegraph poles supports the south bearing ends of the purlins, which rest on a cross beam. The original stone flag floor survives in the north half, along with seatings for upright stone partitions.