Fold is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 February 1984. House.
Fold
- WRENN ID
- frozen-forge-grove
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 February 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Fold, Eastwood Road, Todmorden
- OS grid reference
- SD 958 261
- Coordinates
- 53.73157, -2.06419
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This is a long-range property comprising an early 17th-century house, a late 18th-century barn, and an attached cottage. The buildings are constructed from dressed stone and hammer-dressed stone, with a stone slate roof.
The 17th-century house, to the left, is of three-room plan with a projecting cross-wing at the end. Although now under a catslide roof, the cross-wing may have originally been gabled. The house has a through-passage plan. The cross-wing features a double-chamfered mullioned window of four lights with hollow-chamfered mullions, with a matching window above. A hoodmould protects the ground-floor window. The main range originally had a double-chamfered mullioned window of four lights with a two-light firewindow. The doorway has a square-headed lintel with composite jambs and a moulded surround. To the right of the door is a four-light chamfered window with a king mullion. Most windows in the main range have been altered and lack their original mullions. A stepped string course terminates abruptly where the barn is attached. The first floor retains the remains of three small chamfered windows of two lights. A single stack rises from the ridge. Inside, evidence of a smoke bay is preserved in the opening between the hall window and firewindow for a bressumer. The roof retains a collar for a hood. A very large corbel is present in the cross-wing. The original plan likely comprised a parlour, housebody, and service room, separated by a through-passage (the internal wall of which is now gone).
The barn has watershot masonry and a cart entry with a segmental-arched entrance featuring huge jambs and tie-stones. Above the entrance is a Venetian window. To the left are two two-light mullioned windows with plain stone surrounds; the left-most was broken through to form a doorway, while the other has been altered. Above these are two identical windows lacking mullions. A single two-light window has been inserted in the late 20th century, in keeping with the style to the right of the Venetian window. Pairs of doorways with composite jambs are now blocked, and a flat-faced mullioned window of four lights is present above. Quoins mark the angle with a gable stack. The right-hand return wall has an attached single-storey outbuilding with quoins, a doorway with composite jambs, and a flat-faced mullioned window of two lights. Coping tops the wall, which has a catslide roof parallel with the main range.
Local climate
Fold sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,130 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 82% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 57 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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