High Royds Hall

AIREBOROUGH BINGLEY ROAD SE 14 SE LS 20 (south side, off) Menston 4/36 High Royds Hall - - II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid C17, altered as cottages c.1900, recently restored. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Large 2-unit plan with continuous rear outshut making one-and-half depth, projecting porch at left end of front. Three storeys, 3 bays. Chamfered plinth, continuous dripmoulds on lower 2 levels; 2-storey gabled porch at left end has a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway in its re-entrant side, a round-headed peep-window in the front, at 1st floor a similar peep-window in the side and a 2-light mullioned window in the front with a hoodmould, and gable coping with kneelers; to the right, deeply-recessed chamfered mullion windows on all floors (all with restored rendered or concrete mullions)1 5, 2 and 6 lights at ground floor, 4, 4 and 4 at 1st floor and 2, 2, and 2 lights under the eaves at 2nd floor. Large ridge chimney at junction of bays; gable copings with kneelers. Both return walls have modern gabled porches and similar mullioned windows, some probably insertions and other with hoodmoulds; left return wall has a blocked taking-in doorway between ground and 1st floors near the front. Rear has similar windows and a modern gabled-dormer stairlight.

Interior: back-to-back fireplaces, that in the housebody (1st unit) approx. 2 metres wide, with segmental arched head, and the other approx. 1 1/2 metres wide, with Tudor-arched lintel; chamfered beams with blunt cyma stops; two king-post roof trusses of large scantling, with raked struts, curved principals carrying slightly trenched over-lapped purlins, and convex curved longitudinal struts from the kingposts to the ridge.

Listing NGR: SE1692542809