Middle Harper Royd Cottages Middle Harper Royd Farmhouse
MIDDLE HARPER ROYD COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, HOLLIN LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134513
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Harper Royd Cottages Middle Harper Royd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE HARPER ROYD COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, HOLLIN LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134513
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Middle Harper Royd Cottages Middle Harper Royd Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- MIDDLE HARPER ROYD COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, HOLLIN LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- MIDDLE HARPER ROYD FARMHOUSE, HOLLIN LANE
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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE HARPER ROYD COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, HOLLIN LANE
- Statutory Address:
- MIDDLE HARPER ROYD FARMHOUSE, HOLLIN LANE
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 06009 22646
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE HOLLIN LANE SE 0622-0722 (west side) 16/99 - Middle Harper Royd Farmhouse and Nos 1, 2 and 3 Middle Harper Royd Cottages - II
Farmhouse, now house, part a separate dwelling, and pair of attached cottages. House dated "M 1687", divided into 4 cottages early C19, C19 alterations reconverted c.1985; HB pair of cottages late C18-early C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs. House: 2 storeys, 4 bays with partial rear outshut and wing to rear centre, right bay a separate cottage, left bay raised and separated C19 (now part of house). Cottages: 2 storeys, 2 lst-floor windows each. House, from left: bay 1: 4- (now 3-) light double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould to left of later doorway; let floor blind. Bay 2: doorway with plain stone surround to left of 4- (now 2-) light double- chamfered mullion window; 3-light flat-faced mullion window above. Bay 3: inserted window to left of moulded quoined shallow-basket-arched doorway with dated lintel; 3-light flat-faced mullion window above. Bay 4: 4-panel door in plain stone surround to right of inserted window with window in similar surround above. 3 stacks to ridge (one at right end). Cottages: quoins to right; 2 doorways with plain stone surrounds, each to right of C20 window and with 2 windows above; stack to left end of each. Rear: house: outshut on right has a 4-light and 1-light single-chamfered mullion window; wing has C19 windows. Cottage in left bay and 2 to left each have a 6-light flat-faced mullion window on each floor. Interior of house: a quoined stop-chamfered doorway from housebody to left room and from left room to outshut. House being restored at time of resurvey. A datestone above the well in the yard is inscribed 'GB 1637', the initials being those of Gabriel Bentley, whom Kendall notes built the house (Kendall, p.163). Those on the house datestone are of Henry Barrow. H P Kendall, "The Harper Royds", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol.10 (1913), pp,159-166.
Listing NGR: SE0600922646
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339241
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
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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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