Nos 16 And 18 With Garden Wall To Front And Attached Barn To Right

SD 72 NE HASLINGDEN STONE FOLD

1/123 Nos. 16 and 18 with garden wall to front and attached barn to right (formerly listed as No 16 Stone Fold 20.6.1967 and No 18 Stone Fold and adjoining GV Barn to N.) II Farmhouse, dated 1767 over door, now 2 dwellings. Watershot coursed sandstone, stone slate roof with one chimney at left gable and 2 on the ridge. Double-depth 3-bay plan. Three storeys, almost symmetrical; offset slightly right of centre is doorway with moulded surround and pediment, above which is a projecting datestone with incised decoration at the top and lettering "John and A.Cottam 1767 Go in Peace and Sin no more"; on each floor over the door is one 2-light window, to the left are 3-light windows and to the right 2-light windows with wider lights, all these casements with square wooden mullions, extended sills and heads; at right end is a doorway with plain surround and at 1st floor above this altered masonry and a straight head suggest position of former doorway. Moulded gutter cornice, below the centre of which is a large semi-circular moulded rainwater head displaying the moulded figure of a bird, probably a curlew, holding a leaf in its beak. Gable wall of No. 14 (q.v.) breaks forward on the left, and from this runs the garden wall with rounded coping and central gateway formed with shouldered slabs. Continuing to right at slightly higher level is unusually tall barn of watershot coursed sandstone, slate roof with gable copings and kneelers at right gable; 3 bays with central segmental-headed wagon archway, a window above this, slit breathers on either side, blocked doorway at left end and similar doorway at right end altered as window, another window beside this; right gable has slit breathers, rear has single-storey outshut.

Listing NGR: SD7872025990