Baxters Fold

CRACOE MAIN STREET SD 96 SE (north-west side) 4/4 Baxter's Fold GV II House and attached barn. Mid-late C17 with C18 alterations. Coursed squared gritstone rubble, graduated stone slate roof. 2-storey, 2-bay house, 3-bay barn to right. Quoins. House: C20 glazed doors to left and right, that to left in chamfered quoined surround with shallow triangular doorhead, that to right in projecting plain stone surround with pitched-stone triangular pediment. 2 paired 4-pane sash windows in plain surrounds to ground floor, smaller paired sashes to 2-light flat-faced mullion windows to first floor. End stacks. Barn: end byre doors in chamfered quoined surrounds, that to left with basket-arched doorhead, a shallow triangular doorhead to right. Board doors to cart entrance right of centre; quoined jambs, flat arch. 3 vents under eaves, the central vent having a round head. The house appears to have been divided into 2 cottages in the C18. Interior not seen at resurvey but reported to contain a C17 fireplace to left with keystone and flanking stones incised in imitation of joggled voussoirs; the ceiling beams have scarfed joints above this fireplace indicating an earlier timber firehood. Yorkshire Buildings Study Group, Report No. 671 (1980)

Listing NGR: SD9774560142