Blackshaw Royd Farmhouse and attached barn

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SD 92NE SD 965269

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BLACKSHAW C.P. Blackshaw Head (off) MARSH LANE Blackshaw Royd Farmhouse and attached barn

II House, late C17 with attached earlier barn, probably mid C17. Hammer dressed stone, blue slate roof to house, stone slate to barn. Two storeys. Two-room front, double-pile with gable entry. East front has double chamfered mullioned windows of five lights and four lights to ground floor; inserted C19 doorway with monolithic jambs. First floor has three-light flat faced mullioned window to left of two chamfered mullioned windows of four lights and three lights. Left hand return wall has three-light double chamfered mullioned window to right of basket-arched doorway with chamfered surround; two-light chamfered mullioned window to left. Quoins, coped gable with kneelers and stack. One other stack to ridge. Rear has chamfered mullioned windows of two lights and three lights.

Attached barn, single aisled to west which has square headed cart entry with heavy lintel, set within a portal with chamfered mistal doorways set within the re-entrant angle. Similar cart entry to east. Four-bay interior with principal trusses with queen struts but lacking king posts. South gable has rectangular ventilators now blocked by house which indicates that the barn was built first.

Interior of house formerly had interior passage, retains chamfered doorway. Housebody has segmental arched fireplace carried on corbelled jambs with chamfered surround; reeded spine beams and stop-chamfered joists.

Listing NGR: SD9655726948