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Description: The Fold

Address: Fold Farm The Fold Mixenden Halifax West Yorkshire HX2 8UQ

Grade: II

Group detail: Mixenden Lane

Full description:
Late medieval, rebuilt in C16, and added to in C17 and C18. Timber-framed, the rebuilding in stone. Pitched stone slate roof. Mostly two storeys. Mullioned and transomed windows. Rear has one C16 window with round arched lights, and others of simplified later type of mullioned windows. House body open to rafters. Two posts visible, tenoned for arch braces, and braced to the wall plate. King post trusses, braced to the ridge, with studs parallel to the rafters. Three gabled wings and an extension to rear. The west wing may be contemporary with the house body, as it also has arch-braced trusses, braced to aisle plate, and studs parallel to the rafters. The house body continues east beyond the east wing, which may be next in the chronology. Immediately west of this is another wing built in the re-entrant angle with the house-body: arch-braced king post trusses, braced to the ridge. Interior: timber studded partition between screens passage and west wing. C19 staircase and gallery in hall.