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Description: Tray Royd

Address: Tray Royd Farm And 6 Tray Royd Midgley Sowerby Bridge Calderdale HX2 6UP

Grade: II

Group detail: Town Gate (north side), Midgley

Full description:
Farmhouse, now 2 dwellings. Probably early-mid C17 with later C17 (possibly 1700) and early C19 additions and alterations. 2 storeys, 3 cells with through-passage and rear aisle. Plinth, quoins on left, c1980 buttress at right end. Double-chamfered mullion windows to left and central cells, altered to single-chamfered on 1st floor; single-chamfered mullion windows to right cell. Right cell has stop-chamfered, quoined, Tudor-arched doorway with lintel dated "MSP/1700" to left of windows of 2 and 3 lights linked by inserted light; 5-light window above. Central cell has ground-floor windows of 5 and 3 lights linked by 2 inserted lights and on 1st floor a 5-light, now 3-light, window with inserted window and oval window under decorative-stopped hoodmould to right. Left cell has a 4-light window on each floor, and an inserted window to ground-floor right. Hoodmould over left-hand windows has decorative stops and continues as dripmould across right cell. Shaped kneeler and coping to left gable. End stack to left and corniced ridge stack to right of central cell. c1980 garage set back on right not of special interest. Rear: chamfered mullion windows. Left cell has stop-chamfered, quoined, basket-arched doorway to right; ground-floor windows of 2 lights (with a 3rd light added) and 3 lights (1 mullion removed); and on 1st floor a 4-light window and inserted opening, formerly a door, on left. Central cell has windows of 4 lights and 2 lights (mullion removed) to ground floor, and of 4 lights (2 mullions removed) above. On right, taller early C19 gabled bay projects and has quoins, gable stack and flat faced mullion windows in returns. Left return: truncated external stack. Interior: chamfered quoined doorway from through-passage into central housebody which has a large moulded segmental-arched fireplace, an arched quoined doorway to rear range, a blocked stop-chamfered quoined Tudor-arched doorway to left cell, and spine beams (one a formed tree trunk). On 1st floor a principal rafter roof truss with vertical studs is visible, and a truss with aisle post braced to tie-beam.