Oats Royd House
OATS ROYD HOUSE, DEAN HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134563
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Oats Royd House
- Statutory Address:
- OATS ROYD HOUSE, DEAN HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1134563
- Date first listed:
- 15-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Oats Royd House
- Statutory Address 1:
- OATS ROYD HOUSE, DEAN HOUSE 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:
- OATS ROYD HOUSE, DEAN HOUSE 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 03838 26539
Details
SOWERBY BRIDGE DEAN HOUSE LANE SE 0226 & SE 0326 4/167 (west side, off), Luddenden 15.11.66 Oats Royd House GV II House. Dated 1645 for lie Murgatroyd family, with mid-Cl9 addition for John Murgatroyd (Denton p22). Coursed squared stone, C19 work of ashlar, stone slate roofs. C17 house has through-passage; the C19 block on the east replaces a further C17 range. South front: on left is C17 house of 2 storeys with attic and 2 gabled bays with porch between them; C19 block on right is of 2 storeys and basement, 1 x 5 bays. C17 part: chamfered plinth; double-chamfered mullion windows, those to ground and lst floors transomed; dripmoulds, continuous an ground floor. Porch: moulded round-arched doorway has imposts and bearded head on keystone; dripmould rises to enclose date plaque " JW " (probably James Wynstanley, a mid-C19 owner, replacing 1645 Murgatroyd initials); 3-light window above; gutter spouts projecting from returns; peaked gable with coping, head to apex and finials; inside porch, stone benches and a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway with inserted window above. Left bay: a 3-light window flanked by cross-windows; a 6-light window above; a blocked stepped 3-light window to gable. Right bay: a 9-light window to ground and lst floors, each with elaborate stops to dripmoulds; a C19 window to 1st floor, right; a blocked stepped 3-light gable window. Both bays have moulded coping, right bay with head to apex and finial. Corniced stack to left of each bay. C19 bay projecting on right: rusticated quoins on left ; canted bay window with sashes and apron panels; eaves band; modillion cornice; blocking course; eaves stack on left. Rear: 2 gabled C17 bays to right of C19 bay with C19 single storey gabled addition projecting forward on right. Right bay: set back, with moulded Tudor-arched doorway to internal porch which has stone benches and studded board inner door in chamfered quoined Tudor-arched surround with inserted window above; to right, a cross-window and a 3-light winodw; on 1st floor a C19 window to left of 6-light window; stepped 3-1ight gable window; moulded coping; ridge stack. Central bay: a 9-light window with 6-light window above, and elaborate stops to dripmoulds; gutter spout on left: stepped 3-light gable window, outer lights blind; moulded coping; stack on right. The 2 left-hand bays have a continuous ground-floor dripmould broken in the right return of the central bay by a blocked C19 taking-in door. Right return (east front): symmetrical Cl9 elevation has rusticated basement with low windows; rusticated quoins; steps up to 4-panel door (upper, arched, panels glazed) and overlight in Tuscan portico with deep cornice; blocking course; tripartite window over doorway, otherwise 4-pane sashes in architraves on cill bands, with recessed panels below and triangular pediments above the ground-floor windows; eaves band; modillion cornice; blocking course; hipped roof with end stack to right. Left return: a 4-light window to each floor. C17 part:central housebody (at front) has large segmental-arched fireplace with moulded arris, segmental-arched doorway to passage and stop-chamfered spine and cross-beams. Kitchen behind this has large shouldered-arched stop-chamfered fireplace with bread-oven on right and stop-chamfered cross-beams. Between the two rooms, in present cellar stair, 2 square panels of a timber-frame spine wall survive.
Oats Royd House
Chamber over housebody has stop-chamfered moulded fireplace with crosses to base. Plain C17 panelling over back stairs and a studded board door with ferramenta. Roof has queen-post trusses with angle braces, collars and ridge braces, and a king-post truss with ridge braces, V struts and plaster infill; large-scantling purlins and ridge piece; from attic space a round-headed opening with moulded surround and capitals is reported to lead onto roof of porch (RCHM). C19 part: imported fireplaces; cornices with fists below; one door with painted panels; dog-leg stone stair with iron balusters.
M Denton, A Walk Around Luddenden Dean.RCHM(E) report (31449).
Listing NGR: SE0383826539
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 339169
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Denton, M, A Walk Around Luddenden Dean, (), 29
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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