Royles Head Farmhouse
ROYLES HEAD FARMHOUSE, 23-27, ROYLES HEAD LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277304
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Royles Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address:
- ROYLES HEAD FARMHOUSE, 23-27, ROYLES HEAD LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/03942/28
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1277304
- Date first listed:
- 29-Sept-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Royles Head Farmhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROYLES HEAD FARMHOUSE, 23-27, ROYLES HEAD 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:
- ROYLES HEAD FARMHOUSE, 23-27, ROYLES HEAD LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 10127 16901
Details
ROYLES HEAD LANE 1. 5113 Longwood Nos 23 to 27 (odd) (Royles Head Farmhouse) SE 1016 32/1151 II 2. 1161 (datestone on No 27). Of the C17 house the doors either end of the screens passage survive. Fenestration, however, is C18 or early C19. Hammer dressed stone. Pitched stone slate roof. 2 storeys. Doors to screens passage have 4-centred heads, with hollow spandrels and moulded surrounds on south side, and with a plain chamfer on north side. No 23 has one 4-light and one 3-light stone mullioned window on 1st floor, and one 5-light stone mullioned window on ground floor. Extension to east, rendered, and with mainly C19 windows, may represent the parlour wing. No 25 has one 8-light stone mullioned window (2 lights blocked) on 1st floor, and one 7-light stone mullioned window on ground floor. C18 or early C19 wing to north has modern windows. No 27, rendered, may represent the office wing two 2-light stone mullioned sashes (with arched frames) on 1st floor, one 4-light stone mullioned sash on ground floor.
Listing NGR: SE1012716901
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 407010
- 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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