Tray Royd

SOWERBY BRIDGE TOWN GATE SE 0226 & SE 0326 (north side), Midgley 4/269 Tray Royd 15.ll.66 GV II Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably early-mid C17 with later C17 (possibly 1700) and early C19 additions and alterations. 2 storeys, 3 cells with through-passage and rear aisle. Plinth, quoins on left, c.1980 buttress at right end. Double- chamfered mullion windows to left and central cells, altered to single-chamfered on 1st floor; single-chamfered mullion windows to right cell. Right cell has stop-chamfered, quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with lintel dated "MSP/1700" to left of windows of 2 and 3 lights linked by inserted light; 5-light window above. Cen- tral cell has ground-floor windows of 5 and 3 lights linked by 2 inserted lights and on 1st floor a 5-light, now 3-light, window with inserted window and oval win- dow under decorative-stopped hoodmould to right. Left cell has a 4-light window on each floor, and an inserted window to ground-floor right. Hoodmould over left-hand windows has decorative stops and continues as dripmould across right cell. Shaped kneeler and coping to left gable. End stack to left and corniced ridge stack to right of central cell. c.1980 garage set back on right not of special interest. Rear: chamfered mullion windows. Left cell has stop-chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway to right; ground-floor windows of 2 lights (with a 3rd light added) and 3 lights (1 mullion removed); and on 1st floor a 4-light win- dow and inserted opening, formerly a door, on left. Central cell has windows of 4 lights and 2 lights (mullion removed) to ground floor, and of 4 lights (2 mullions removed) above. On right, taller early C19 gabled bay projects and has quoins, gable stack and flat-faced mullion windows in returns. Left return: truncated external stack. Interior: chamfered quoined doorway from through-passage into central housebody which has a large moulded segmental-arched fireplace, an arched quoined doorway to rear range, a blocked stop-chamfered quoined Tudor-arched door- way to left cell, and spine beams (one a formed tree trunk). On 1st floor a prin- cipal rafter roof truss with vertical studs is visible, and a truss with aisle post braced to tiebeam.

Listing NGR: SE0315126549