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Description: Oats Royd Mill, block to east of road

Address: East Block Oats Royd Mills Dean House Lane Luddenden Halifax West Yorkshire

Grade: II

Group detail: Dean House Lane (east side, off), Luddenden

Full description:
Mill building, now largely unoccupied with some commercial premises. Dated 'JM 1863' for John Murgatroyd. Coursed square stone, slate roof. 4 storeys with basement. Gable end onto road: 3 bays. To right of centre a large round-arched doorway with quoins, part-blocked and with window, flanked by rusticated round-arched doorways with 8-panel double doors and fanlights. On each upper floor a central panelled double loading door flanked by 6-pane windows with stone lintels and projecting cills, 2 on the left blocked, and 2 on the right masked by later gantries crossing the road. Hoist in gable. Coping. Stack on left corner. Rear, over looking valley: central square-section stair tower has paired windows on each floor, including basement, and single windows in returns, all being round-arched with keyed, imposted ashlar surrounds on cill bands, the lower halves louvred, the upper halves with glazing bars. Left return: 16:9 bays, the 16 left-hand bays breaking forward. Bay 16 formerly had 1st and 2nd-floor loading doors set in giant rusticated round arch, one of the stones dated. Other doorways have stone lintels: 6-pane windows with stone lintels and projecting cills. Gutter brackets on table. Interior: cast-iron columns support large-scantling cross-beams; timber joists and floorboards. (Formerly listed as part of Oats Royd Mill).