Middle Harper Royd Cottages Middle Harper Royd Farmhouse

The building comprises a farmhouse, now a house, along with a pair of attached cottages. The original farmhouse dates to 1687, and was divided into four cottages in the early 19th century. Subsequent alterations were reversed around 1985. The attached pair of cottages were built in the late 18th and early 19th century. The construction is of coursed squared stone with stone slate roofs.

The farmhouse is two storeys with four bays, featuring a partial rear outshut and a wing to the rear center. The right bay is a separate cottage and the left bay was raised and separated in the 19th century, now forming part of the house. On the front of the house, the bay to the left has a four-light (now three-light) double-chamfered mullion window with a hoodmould to the left of a later doorway, with the ground floor blind. The second bay features a doorway with a simple stone surround to the left of a four-light (now two-light) double-chamfered mullion window, and a three-light flat-faced mullion window above. The third bay has an inserted window to the left of a moulded, quoined, shallow-basket-arched doorway with a dated lintel, and a three-light flat-faced mullion window above. The fourth bay has a four-panel door in a simple stone surround to the right of an inserted window, with a matching window above. There are three stacks on the ridge, one at the right end. The cottages are two storeys with two first-floor windows each, and feature quoins on their right side. Each cottage has two doorways with simple stone surrounds, located to the right of a 20th-century window, with two windows above. There is a stack on the left end of each cottage. The rear of the house has an outshut on the right with a four-light and single-light single-chamfered mullion window, and a wing with 19th-century windows. The cottage in the left bay, and the two cottages to the left, each have a six-light flat-faced mullion window on both floors.

Inside the house, there is a quoined, stop-chamfered doorway from the main body to the left room, and from the left room to the outshut. A datestone above the yard well is inscribed ‘GB 1637’, representing the initials of Gabriel Bentley, noted by Kendall as the house's builder. The initials on the house's datestone are of Henry Barrow. The house was undergoing restoration at the time of the resurvey.