Tray Royd

Tray Royd is a farmhouse, now divided into two dwellings, likely dating from the early to mid-17th century, with later additions and alterations in the 17th century (possibly around 1700) and the early 19th century. The building is originally three cells wide, with a through-passage and a rear aisle. It has a plinth and quoins are visible on the left side. A buttress was added around 1980 on the right end.

The left and central cells feature double-chamfered mullion windows, with the first floor windows altered to single-chamfered. The right cell has single-chamfered mullion windows. The right cell also has a stop-chamfered, quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with a lintel dated “MSP/1700” to the left of the windows, flanked by a 2-light and a 3-light window, with a further inserted light between them; above this is a 5-light window. The central cell has ground-floor windows consisting of a 5-light and a 3-light window linked by two inserted lights, and a 5-light window (now 3-light) on the first floor, with an inserted window and an oval window under a decorative-stopped hoodmould to the right. The left cell has a 4-light window on each floor, with an inserted window to the ground floor on the right side. A hoodmould over the left-hand windows incorporates decorative stops and continues as a dripmould across the right cell. Shaping kneeler stones and coping are visible on the left gable. A stack stands at the end of the left side, and a corniced ridge stack is located to the right of the central cell. A garage, added around 1980, is set back on the right and not considered to be of special interest.

The rear of the building has chamfered mullion windows. The left cell has a stop-chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway on the right side, ground-floor windows of 2 lights (with a 3rd light subsequently added) and 3 lights (with one mullion removed), and a 4-light window on the first floor, along with an inserted opening, formerly a door, on the left. The central cell has windows of 4 lights and 2 lights (with one mullion removed) on the ground floor, and a 4-light window (with two mullions removed) above. A taller, early 19th-century gabled bay projects on the right, with quoins, a gable stack, and flat-faced mullion windows visible in the returns. The left return has a truncated external stack.

Inside, a chamfered quoined doorway leads from the through-passage into the central housebody. This area features a large, moulded, segmental-arched fireplace, an arched quoined doorway to the rear range, a blocked stop-chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway to the left cell, and spine beams; one of these is formed from a tree trunk. On the first floor, a principal rafter roof truss with vertical studs is visible, along with a truss braced to a tiebeam via an aisle post.