Lower Folds Farmhouse And Lower Folds Cottage

The property comprises a farmhouse and cottage, Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage, dating to the early 17th century. It began as a hall and cross-wing structure, with an addition built in the early 19th century. The construction utilizes thin coursed Elland flags with larger dresser stone details, and it has a stone slate roof.

The front of the building is two storeys high, with a single-storey aisle extending to the rear of the hall range. A gabled cross-wing is present, with a garage incorporated into the ground floor. A depressed Tudor arch-headed doorway with moulded jambs is situated at the junction of the wing and the main range. A chamfered mullioned window with six lights (though three mullions have been removed) is visible on the main house body. Large quoins mark the angles of the building. Above is a late 18th-century four-light mullioned window, and a similar window has been inserted into the gable, maintaining a consistent style. The right-hand return wall features a single arch-headed window, above which is a two-light chamfered mullioned window. The left-hand return wall is rendered. The rear gable is also rendered, with revealed quoins, and contains two late 18th-century two-light mullioned windows, as well as a four-light window above. A triple string course of projecting slates is visible on the gable, likely used for a pigeon columbarium, topped by a crocketed finial. The aisle roof has chamfered mullioned windows with three and two lights, both of which have had mullions removed. A later two-storey building is built onto the main range, featuring a large taking-in door at first floor, which is now blocked and was originally accessed by an external staircase. The rear of this addition has flat-faced mullion windows with four and two lights on each floor. Stone gutter brackets survive on the front. The main range includes a large dressed chimney stack to the ridge, to the right of the entrance end.

Internally, the cross-wing features a Tudor-headed fireplace backing onto a through passage. The kitchen includes a re-used tiebeam with half-lap joints from a cruck building, and a re-used cruk-blade acting as an arcade plate to the rear aisle. Each gable of the wing displays an exposed king-post truss built into the stonework, likely from an earlier 16th-century timber-framed building.