Wheatley Royd Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1984. House. 4 related planning applications.
Wheatley Royd Farmhouse
- WRENN ID
- white-quartz-birch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Calderdale
- Constituency
- Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1984
- Type
- House
- Address
- Wheatley Royd Farmhouse, Brearley Lane, Hebden Royd, HX2 6JA
- OS grid reference
- SE 028 256
- Coordinates
- 53.72736, -1.95774
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Wheatley Royd Farmhouse is a house divided into two occupations, dating from the early 17th century with some alterations likely made in the late 19th century. It is constructed of large dressed stone and has a stone slate roof. The building features a three-room, through-passage plan with a projecting cross-wing. It stands two storeys tall, although the service end has been reduced to a single storey.
The cross-wing has a cyma-moulded string course above the ground floor windows, which are double chamfered mullioned windows, some of which are missing all or some of their mullions. There is a former 12-light mullioned and transomed window, with a smaller version above it. The right-hand return wall has two-light windows that are blocked. The gabled roof has copings and later kneelers, while the hall is under a lower roof line. A former 16-light mullioned and transomed window retains only its king mullion, and above it on the first floor is a former 7-light window.
An inserted 19th-century doorway with monolithic jambs is located next to the through-passage doorway, which features a Tudor arched lintel with composite jambs and a chamfered surround, topped with a hoodmould that has decorative label stops. A 4-light window also has a hoodmould with straight returns. There is one stack that backs onto the through-passage and two additional stacks.
At the rear, the former double chamfered mullioned and transomed windows in the cross-wing have hoodmoulds above them, with the first-floor window featuring label stops initialled "R A" and "A H". Inside the cross-wing, there are chamfered spine beams supporting large heavy joists, and a fireplace with a depressed Tudor arched lintel and a chamfered surround that continues to form spandrels. The upper chamber has a similar, though smaller, fireplace.
Local climate
Wheatley Royd Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,070 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 53 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 31 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- Rochdale Canal Lock Number 5 (Edward Kilner Lock)
- 10 and 12, Blind Lane
- Rochdale Canal Stoney Spring Bridge
- New Sunderland Sunderland House
- Upper Blind Lane Farmhouse and attached barn
- Stoney Spring
- Rochdale Canal Lock Number 6 (Brearley Upper Lock)
- Brearley Bridge
- Green Field
- Lodge to Brearley House