Description

BURNLEY

SD8234 HOLME ROAD, Stoneyholme
906-1/5/248 (West side)
29/09/77 Royle Hall Farmhouse

GV II

Pair of cottages added to the former Royle Hall (demolished in
mid C20), with extensions, and now integrated as a farmhouse.
Probably earlier and later C18; altered. Watershot coursed
squared sandstone with quoins (the south gable now rendered),
stone slate roof.
PLAN: 3-unit double-depth plan consisting of a former pair of
single-fronted cottages facing west with an addition at the
north end and extensions to the rear.
EXTERIOR: 2 low storeys, with a 2-window west front (the
extension to the left having no windows at 1st floor). The
2-unit main range has quoins at the junction with the
extension and ragged masonry at the right-hand corner (where
it was linked to the former hall); each former cottage has a
doorway to the right, both with plain surrounds, that to the
right-hand cottage now protected by a gabled porch with a
round-headed arch and gable coping with kneelers and ball
finials (the left side of this porch overlapping the left jamb
of the doorway), and the other doorway now blocked; each also
had coupled rectangular windows at ground floor, that to the
right-hand cottage with a plain surround and a square-cut
flush mullion and now with 9-pane top-hung casements, and that
to the left with the left light blocked and the other
enlarged; and at 1st floor each has a 3-light mullioned window
with square-cut mullions, a metal-framed casement in the
centre and diamond-lattice glazing. The extension to the left
has two 9-pane top-hung casements at ground floor. The whole
range has ridge chimneys at both junctions and gable chimneys
at both ends. The right-hand gable wall incorporates a fine
early C17 segmental-arched fireplace approx 3 metres wide,
with a round-headed arch to its left, both with moulded
surrounds. The rear has (inter alia) an ex situ C17 2-light
mullioned window at 1st floor with ovolo mullion.
INTERIOR not inspected.
Forms group with stable block approx 15 metres north-east
(qv), and gate piers at south end of yard (qv).

Listing NGR: SD8294934437

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26537419

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