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Description: Well Royd

Address: Well Royd High Street Stainland Halifax West Yorkshire HX4 9PQ

Grade: II

Group detail: High Street (north side) Stainland

Full description:
House. Mid C18. Hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof with coped gables with kneelers. Double pile plan with 2-span roof. Internal stacks to gables. Symmetrical front with projecting dressed quoins, window and door surrounds and band. Two storey central doorway flanked by 3-light flat faced mullioned windows with same above, one mullion removed from each, the other placed centrally for casement windows. Above door is date plaque which reads 'RRM 1762', tall window above. Moulded gutter brackets. Rear fenestration survives intact, though rendered. Long vertical centrally placed staircase of 6 lights mullioned and transomed has glazing bars of 8 panes and 6. To either side are 3-light flat faced mullioned windows to ground and first floor, with glazing bars of 8 panes. Interior has moulded plaster ceilings and arch-headed niches. One room at rear has shutters to window with arched keeping cellar under. Some panelling with large fielded panels survives at first floor landing.