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Latitude: 53.7139 / 53°42'49"N
Longitude: -2.4292 / 2°25'45"W
OS Eastings: 371770
OS Northings: 424247
OS Grid: SD717242
Mapcode National: GBR CTGH.WD
Mapcode Global: WH972.NXF7
Plus Code: 9C5VPH7C+G8
Entry Name: Bank Fold Farmhouse and Cottage with Attached Barn
Listing Date: 27 September 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1260438
English Heritage Legacy ID: 440725
ID on this website: 101260438
Location: Bank Fold, Blackburn with Darwen, Lancashire, BB3
County: Blackburn with Darwen
Civil Parish: Yate and Pickup Bank
Traditional County: Lancashire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Lancashire
Church of England Parish: Lower Darwen St James
Church of England Diocese: Blackburn
Tagged with: Farmhouse
SD 72 SW YATE AND PICKUP BANK BANK FOLD
5/142 Bank Fold Farmhouse and
cottage with attached barn
-
- II
Farmhouse and cottage in one, with attached barn and stable, dated
1765 on stable. Coursed thin sandstone rubble, stone slate roof on
2 levels with one chimney on the ridge and another at the right gable.
Built on slope, the house and cottage at the higher level: these are
double-pile and make 3 bays, the cottage being the 1st bay. Two
storeys; house is symmetrical: plain doorway with rectangular fanlight,
2 square windows on each floor, all with altered glazing; cottage has
doorway on left, one window on each floor, the lower of 2 lights with
a flush mullion and the upper sashed. At the rear each bay has 2
openings on each floor: a door to the 2nd bay, otherwise all square
windows of 4 panes (some sashed, others damaged); and the cottage has
a 2-light cellar window. Three-bay barn to left has opposed wagon
entrances to the centre, that at the front with a straight wooden
lintel protected by a 2-course band, and on the right a projecting
outshut stable which has a doorway in the side wall, a small opening to
the loft, and above this an ashlar datestone decoratively inscribed:
Robert
&
th
Eliza Yates
1765
(Robert Yates, yeoman, one of numerous Yates families in this township,
"rebuilt the old homestead at Bank Fold": Abram Blackburn pp. 763-4)
Listed as good example of its type at this period.
Listing NGR: SD7177024247
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