Description

SE 080183
3/40

ELLAND
(0FF) GREEN LANE
Sowood
Lower Folds Farmhouse and Lower Folds Cottage

II

House. Early C17 hall and cross-wing, with early C19 addition. Thin coursed
Elland flags with larger dresser 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 string course 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 onto through 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.

Listing NGR: SE0801818366

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427073

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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