Tray Royd

TRAY ROYD, TOWN GATE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1134457
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Tray Royd
Statutory Address:
TRAY ROYD, TOWN GATE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1134457
Date first listed:
15-Nov-1966
List Entry Name:
Tray Royd
Statutory Address 1:
TRAY ROYD, TOWN GATE

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
TRAY ROYD, TOWN GATE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
SE 03151 26549

Details

SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0226 & SE 0326 (north side), Midgley 4/269 Tray Royd 15.ll.66 GV II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably early-mid C17 with later C17 (possibly 1700) and early C19 additions and alterations. 2 storeys, 3 cells with through-passage and rear aisle. Plinth, quoins on left, c.1980 buttress at right end. Double- chamfered mullion windows to left and central cells, altered to single-chamfered on 1st floor; single-chamfered mullion windows to right cell. Right cell has stop-chamfered, quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with lintel dated "MSP/1700" to left of windows of 2 and 3 lights linked by inserted light; 5-light window above. Cen- tral cell has ground-floor windows of 5 and 3 lights linked by 2 inserted lights and on 1st floor a 5-light, now 3-light, window with inserted window and oval win- dow under decorative-stopped hoodmould to right. Left cell has a 4-light window on each floor, and an inserted window to ground-floor right. Hoodmould over left-hand windows has decorative stops and continues as dripmould across right cell. Shaped kneeler and coping to left gable. End stack to left and corniced ridge stack to right of central cell. c.1980 garage set back on right not of special interest. Rear: chamfered mullion windows. Left cell has stop-chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway to right; ground-floor windows of 2 lights (with a 3rd light added) and 3 lights (1 mullion removed); and on 1st floor a 4-light win- dow and inserted opening, formerly a door, on left. Central cell has windows of 4 lights and 2 lights (mullion removed) to ground floor, and of 4 lights (2 mullions removed) above. On right, taller early C19 gabled bay projects and has quoins, gable stack and flat-faced mullion windows in returns. Left return: truncated external stack. Interior: chamfered quoined doorway from through-passage into central housebody which has a large moulded segmental-arched fireplace, an arched quoined doorway to rear range, a blocked stop-chamfered quoined Tudor-arched door- way to left cell, and spine beams (one a formed tree trunk). On 1st floor a prin- cipal rafter roof truss with vertical studs is visible, and a truss with aisle post braced to tiebeam.

Listing NGR: SE0315126549

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
339401
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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