High Royds Hall

High Royds Hall is a farmhouse, now a house, dating from the early to mid 17th century. It was altered into cottages around 1900 and has recently been restored. The building is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with quoins and features a stone slate roof. It has a large two-unit plan with a continuous rear outshut, making it one-and-a-half depth, and a projecting porch at the left end of the front.

The structure stands three storeys high and has three bays. It includes a chamfered plinth and continuous dripmoulds on the lower two levels. The two-storey gabled porch at the left end has a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway on its re-entrant side, a round-headed peep-window on the front, and a similar peep-window on the first floor side. There is also a two-light mullioned window on the front with a hoodmould and gable coping with kneelers. To the right, there are deeply-recessed chamfered mullion windows on all floors, all featuring restored rendered or concrete mullions. The ground floor has windows with 5, 2, and 6 lights, the first floor has three sets of four lights, and the second floor has pairs of two lights under the eaves.

A large ridge chimney is located at the junction of the bays, and gable copings with kneelers are present. Both return walls have modern gabled porches and similar mullioned windows, some of which are likely insertions, while others have hoodmoulds. The left return wall features a blocked taking-in doorway between the ground and first floors near the front. The rear of the building has similar windows and a modern gabled-dormer stairlight.

Inside, there are back-to-back fireplaces, with the one in the housebody (first unit) approximately 2 metres wide, featuring a segmental arched head, and the other approximately 1.5 metres wide with a Tudor-arched lintel. The interior also includes chamfered beams with blunt cyma stops, and two king-post roof trusses of large scantling, which have raked struts, curved principals carrying slightly trenched overlapped purlins, and convex curved longitudinal struts extending from the kingposts to the ridge.