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SK 59 SE
9/60

FOLDS LANE
Folds Cottages

13.11.59

II

House now two unoccupied cottages with attached outbuildings partly in the parish of Maltby. 1750 by Mr Platt for Lord Scarborough (Beastall, p83). Ashlar and coursed rubble magnesian limestone; Westmorland slate Welsh slate and pantile roofs. T-shaped, two-storey, three-bay house with one-storey, one-bay side pavilions in Palladian style; rear angles of main range balled by two-storey outshuts (not of special interest) pavilions linked by walls to one-storey, three-bay outbuildings of c1750 facing onto rear garden.

Main house, west front: plinth, rusticated ground floor. Raised central panel with steps to door beneath flat arch and modillion cornice. Outer bays have boarded-up windows with voussoirs of flat arches aligned with courses, window on right is narrower. First floor deep band linked to sill band by plain window aprons; central Ionic Venetian window with moulded sill, pilasters and pulvinated frieze, windows to outer bays have moulded sills, shouldered architraves, pulvinated friezes and cornices, Cornice and blocking course to nipped roof Side pavilions set back, each have: rusticated quoins and square-faced surround with keystone to semi-domed niche; eaves cornice and blocking course, to nipped roof with ridge stack.

Rear: wing has quoined rubble walling and round-headed window on each floor, eaves band and cornice; rendered stacks to eaves of main range. Pair of outbuildings to rear left and rear right attached by coped walls with gateways each have central bay breaking forward with door and adjoining windows in raised ashlar surrounds, outer bays with similar doorways, nipped roof Rear-right outbuilding incorporates later brick lean-to (not of special interest).

Interior: in poor condition at time of resurvey. Central imperial staircase now divided by partition wall, remains of original wrought- iron handrail. Ground- floor room on left has crinoidal limestone fireplace with fluted keystone on lintel set beneath a scroll-topped plaster overmantel, remains of plaster wall panels and or enriched cornice to decorative ceiling (mostly collapsed) having acanthus motifs. First floor: subdivided single room with fragment of original plain coving. Said to have been built for Lord Scarborough's chaplain although the staircase and upper room suggest a grander occasional use.

Accounts of John Billam, Estate Steward, note that in 1750 stone was being laid to build a new house the Folds and that Mr. Platt was paid £50 on account in the same year. Mr. Platt is no doubt George Platt of Rotherham and this building is of particular interest in that it predates the involvement ofJames Paine with the Sandbeck estate.

T.W. Beastall, A North Country Estate, 1974.

Listing NGR: SK 57641 90656

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26444659

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Recommended Books

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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  For the Record
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)