Lower Fold Farmhouse and attached barn is a Grade II listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1975. Farmhouse, barn.

Lower Fold Farmhouse and attached barn

WRENN ID
gilded-shingle-finch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Bradford
Constituency
Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1975
Type
Farmhouse, barn
Address
Lower Fold Farmhouse and attached barn, Kennel Lane, Oxenhope
OS grid reference
SE 014 345
Coordinates
53.80744, -1.97876
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Lower Fold Farmhouse and the attached barn is a late 17th to early 18th century laithehouse located in Oxenhope, Keighley. The building is constructed of coursed stone with a stone slate roof and stands two storeys tall. The farmhouse features three first-floor windows, while the barn has four bays. Notable architectural details include quoins and double-chamfered mullion windows throughout.

The farmhouse has a plinth, and a later doorway on the right with a plain stone surround and impost blocks. The ground floor has four windows arranged with two, three, four, and two lights. The first floor has three windows with two, two, and three lights. There is a shaped kneeler and ashlar coping on the left side, along with two shouldered, corniced ridge stacks.

The barn, located on the right, has a roof that descends to a lower level, forming an aisle. It features a quoined cart entrance and two windows on the left side with two and four lights. There is a plain stone surround doorway to the right, with stone on the left jamb. The left return of the cart entrance has a chamfered quoined doorway, and the left return of the aisle has a two-light window. The right gable also has a shaped kneeler and ashlar coping.

At the rear, the farmhouse has a chamfered, quoined doorway on the left, a two-light window on the right, a small square chamfered window, and two similar windows above. The barn has a chamfered, quoined doorway and a two-light, flat-faced mullioned window. The property is currently unoccupied but undergoing restoration.

Local climate

Lower Fold Farmhouse and attached barn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,100 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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