Mytholmroyd Farmhouse

This is a farmhouse, originally built in the late medieval period with a timber frame, which was substantially rebuilt in the 17th century. The house is constructed of well-coursed dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It has a three-room plan, incorporating a through-passage, and forms a “T” shape with a projecting cross-wing and a projecting housebody, each under a steeply pitched gable with kneelers and bases for finials. A rainwater spout projects in the valley between the gables.

The front elevation features a continuous hoodmould over the ground-floor windows, with a casement moulding and a heart-shaped stop on the left-hand end. First-floor windows also have hoodmoulds with decorated stops. The left-hand cell has two double-chamfered mullioned windows of two lights at the service end, and a doorway with composite jambs, a Tudor arched lintel, and a chamfered surround, above which is a two-light double-chamfered mullioned window to the first floor. All other windows are double-chamfered mullioned. A two-light fire window is also present. The housebody projects forward and has a seven-light window on the ground floor, with a ten-light mullioned and transomed window over it to the first floor. A late 18th-century doorway with monolithic jambs has been inserted, and a six-light parlour window is accompanied by a ten-light mullioned and transomed window above. The left-hand return wall has a three-light chamfered mullioned window to the ground floor and a ten-light double-chamfered mullioned window to the first floor, with a coped gable, kneelers, and an apex stone carved with a fleur-de-lys. The rear has a projecting wing to the left, featuring an 18th-century doorway with monolithic jambs alongside a four-light chamfered mullioned window, with a ten-light mullioned and transomed window above it to the first floor. A rendered outshut of uncertain date has two chamfered mullioned windows to the first floor. A similar through-passage doorway is positioned to the left of a two-light window, and another 18th-century doorway has been inserted. The right-hand return wall has chamfered mullioned windows of two and three lights, and a lateral stack with two diamond-set flues. A further stack is located on the ridge backing onto the through-passage.

Inside, the housebody has a large bressumer beam supported on a stylobat with a board and muntin panelled fire screen, exhibiting triple reeded edges. The ceilings throughout the housebody and the parlour feature finely reeded spine beams and floor joists. The parlour retains its original fireplace with stop-chamfered jambs. The chamber above the parlour shares a similar Tudor arched fireplace with stop-chamfered jambs. A large post with a heavily jowled head, surviving from the earlier timber-framed house, supports a king post truss with ten “V” struts, along with other king post trusses. Interior doorways resemble the through-passage doorways. The building is prominently situated within the town and is illustrated in publications by A. Comfort and C.F. Stell.