Description

SOWERBY BRIDGE HOLLIN LANE
SE 0622-0722
(west side)
16/99
- Middle Harper Royd
Farmhouse and Nos 1,
2 and 3 Middle Harper
Royd Cottages
- II

Farmhouse, now house, part a separate dwelling, and pair of attached cottages. House
dated "M 1687", divided into 4 cottages early C19, C19 alterations reconverted c.1985;
HB
pair of cottages late C18-early C19. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roofs.
House: 2 storeys, 4 bays with partial rear outshut and wing to rear centre, right bay
a separate cottage, left bay raised and separated C19 (now part of house). Cottages:
2 storeys, 2 lst-floor windows each. House, from left: bay 1: 4- (now 3-) light
double-chamfered mullion window with hoodmould to left of later doorway; let floor
blind. Bay 2: doorway with plain stone surround to left of 4- (now 2-) light double-
chamfered mullion window; 3-light flat-faced mullion window above. Bay 3: inserted
window to left of moulded quoined shallow-basket-arched doorway with dated lintel;
3-light flat-faced mullion window above. Bay 4: 4-panel door in plain stone surround
to right of inserted window with window in similar surround above. 3 stacks to ridge
(one at right end). Cottages: quoins to right; 2 doorways with plain stone surrounds,
each to right of C20 window and with 2 windows above; stack to left end of each.
Rear: house: outshut on right has a 4-light and 1-light single-chamfered mullion
window; wing has C19 windows. Cottage in left bay and 2 to left each have a 6-light
flat-faced mullion window on each floor. Interior of house: a quoined stop-chamfered
doorway from housebody to left room and from left room to outshut. House being
restored at time of resurvey. A datestone above the well in the yard is inscribed 'GB
1637', the initials being those of Gabriel Bentley, whom Kendall notes built the house
(Kendall, p.163). Those on the house datestone are of Henry Barrow.
H P Kendall, "The Harper Royds", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol.10 (1913),
pp,159-166.

Listing NGR: SE0600922646

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26427893

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Recommended Books

• 
  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)