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Description: Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage

Address: Lower Folds Farm Green Lane Sowood Stainland Halifax West Yorkshire HX4 9JP

Grade: II

Group detail: (off) Green Lane Sowood

Full description:
House. Early C17 hall and cross-wing, with early C19 addition. Thin coursed Elland flags with larger dressed stone details, stone slate roof. 2-storey front, single storey aisle to rear of hall range. Front has gabled cross-wing, with garage made into ground floor. Depressed tudor arch-headed doorway with moulded jambs at junction of wing with main range. 6-light chamfered mullioned window (3 mullions removed) to main housebody. Large quoins to angles. Above is late C18 4-light mullioned window and similar inserted in gable in keeping. Right hand return wall has single arch-headed window with 2-light chamfered mullioned window over. Left hand return wall is rendered. Rear gable rendered with revealed quoins, has two late C18 2-light mullioned windows with 4-light window over (some mullions removed). Gable has triple stringcourse of projecting slates probably for pigeon columbarium surmounted by crocketed finial (to both gables). Aisle roofed continuously has chamfered mullioned windows of 3 and 2 lights (both with mullions removed). Built onto main range is later 2-storey building with the main feature of large taking-in door at first floor (now blocked) originally with outside staircase. Rear has 4-light and 2-light flat faced mullion windows to each floor. Stone gutter brackets survive to front. Main range has large dressed chimney stack to ridge to right of entry end. Interior: has Tudor-headed fireplace backing ontothrough passage in cross-wing, kitchen has re-used tiebeam with half-lap joints from cruck building, and re-used cruck-blade as arcade plate to rear aisle; both gables to wing have exposed king-post truss built into the stonework, probably from earlier C16 timber framed building.