Hartley Royd Farmhouse

Hartley Royd Farmhouse is a house dating from the early 17th century, with an addition to the west constructed in the early 19th century. It is built of large dressed stone with a stone slate roof. The original house has a three-room south front and a double-pile plan under a single span roof. It is two storeys high and has a plinth. The windows are double-chamfered mullioned, with a continuous drip course over the ground floor windows. The south front has an 8-light housebody window with a king mullion, above which is a 6-light window with a king mullion. To the right are a 6-light window and a corresponding window above, both with king mullions. To the left is a 4-light window and another above, also with a king mullion. Some mullions have been removed and some lights are blocked. There are three large moulded gutter brackets that match the kneeler to the coped gable at the right-hand end. The left-hand end is partially covered by a forward-projecting extension that incorporates a 3-light flat-faced mullioned window. The left-hand return wall has a half-gable, coped with a kneeler, and a single square light with another above. A doorway is located under a lean-to on the return wall of the extension. The western gable of the main range has double-chamfered mullioned windows of 2 lights to the ground floor and 2 of 3 lights to the first floor. An apex stone is carved with a ball and lacks a finial. The rear elevation has a weathered plinth and windows of 3 lights and two of 2 lights to the ground floor. The original door entry remains, now a window, with composite jambs and a depressed Tudor-arched lintel with a moulded surround and sunken spandrels. Above the door is a recessed chamfered surround intended for a tablet which reads "John Fielden et Elizabeth Uxor ejus Ann: Dom. 1724." A 2-light and a 4-light window are located on the first floor. Two gutter brackets are present. A return wall has an extruded stack with multiple offsets and a mullioned and transomed window of 10 lights to the first floor. There is another large stack to the ridge. One rear room retains a large basket-arched fireplace with a stop-moulded surround, incorporating a beehive oven, stop-chamfered spine beams, and reeded joists.