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Description: Ibbot Royd Farmhouse

Address: Ibbotroyd Farm Walker Lane Wadsworth Hebden Bridge West Yorkshire HX7 8SJ

Grade: II

Group detail: Walker Lane Old Town

Full description:
House, mid C17 with added porch c1730. Large dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys. 3-room plan with direct entry into service room without a balancing door in the rear wall. 2-light chamfered mullioned window; gabled porch with kneelers and coping of similar style to that at White Hole, Thurrish Lane (q.v.) dated 1737; 7-light double chamfered mullioned window with king mullion to housebody, 3-light chamfered window over; 3-light chamfered window to parlour with same over but blocked over which is mid C20 stone eaves dormer window of 2 large lights; C19 inserted doorway with tie-stone jambs. All windows lack most mullions and have modern glazing. Left hand return wall has coped gable with kneelers. Rear has 2-light fire window and small arched light over to 1st floor, and 2-light window to rear of parlour. Large single stack to ridge. Interior: Housebody has scarf-jointed spine beams, evidence of former bressumer and stone chamfered doorway to parlour. Parlour has spine beam with grooved soffit for screen separating the room possibly from a ladder staircase lit by the 2-light window on the rear wall. C. F.Stell, p.108.