Langroyd Farmhouse And Attached Outbuildings

Langroyd Farmhouse and attached outbuilding

Farmhouse and attached combination outbuilding incorporating the functions of shippon and hay barn. Late 17th century incorporating elements of earlier builds, with alterations and additions in the 18th and 19th centuries. Coursed rubble sandstone with cut stone dressings, quoins, and coped gables with moulded kneelers. Ridge, off-ridge and side wall stacks to house—two of stone, the other rendered. Shallow-pitched roof with stone slate covering.

The house is a refronted double-depth gable-entry plan with a substantial contemporary outbuilding, itself altered and enlarged on several occasions. The house front is gabled, of two storeys with attic and three window bays wide. Central doorway with 18th-century plain stone surround comprised of single jambs and a shallow lintel, formerly below a triangular hood. Flanking the doorway are stacked 4-light windows with recessed ovolo mullions, all with irregular surrounds. A 2-light mullioned window sits above the doorway. A semi-circular headed attic light to the centre is positioned immediately below the chimney stack. The left side elevation has a doorway to the rear bay and stacked 2-light 18th-century mullioned windows incorporating re-used ovolo mullions.

The attached outbuilding shows numerous additions and alterations, but its main body appears to be of 17th-century date, with chamfered surrounds to doorways and longitudinally-braced king-post roof trusses rising from short braced wall-posts set on corbels. The south end is concealed by the house. The east side wall has a 19th-century brick addition to the north of a 17th-century chamfered doorway within a porch, the lintel of which is a massive stone trough. Further north are 17th-century vents, an 18th-century doorway with overlight, a blocked 17th-century doorway with massive lintel and quoin line to the north, and a full-height double doorway at the north end set within a porch. The west side has two 19th-century double doorways at the north end, and other parts of the elevation break forward, with a double doorway towards the centre where the roof line is most advanced. Further 18th-century openings and a chamfered 17th-century doorway exist at the junction with the house.

The interior has not been inspected but is believed to contain features of interest, such as broad plank half-hung doors, breathers to gable walls, a triple purlin roof with ridge purlin, and some king-post trusses with supplementary struts within the truss.