West Royd Farm Butts Green Lane, Luddendenfoot

West Royd Luddenden Foot

This photograph was amongst those taken in 1937 by local photographer and antiquarian Hugh Percy Kendall, as part of a series capturing old halls and homesteads from across the Parish of Halifax.

Here is a description taken from Calderdale's listed buildings:

Butts Green Road (north side, off), Luddenden Foot

Farmhouse. Dated 1624. Thin coursed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 4 bays, 2 through-passages. Quoins. Doorway between bays 3 and 4: quoined, chamfered, moulded surround; lintel has sunk spandrels initialled 'MM' and sunk panel with date; C20 part-glazed door. 2nd doorway, in bay 2: chamfered quoined surround with deep Tudor-arched lintel initialled 'MM'. Windows are double chamfered mullioned, those to ground floor originally with transom. Ground floor windows: bay 1 - 6-light with king mullion; bay 3 - 2-light fire-window, 6-light, both with mullions and transoms removed. Continuous dripmould over ground floor openings, to left 2 bays with circle stop on left and raised over door, to right 2 bays with elaborate stops and double spiral over door. 1st floor, from left to right: two 4-light windows (one mullion removed from left window) each under hoodmould with elaborate diamond stops; two 6-light windows (each with 3 mullions removed). Gable coping. Corniced stacks to ends and one to ridge between bays 2 and 3. Rear: left-hand (upper) through-passage doorway in added porch has later jambs and chamfered ogee lintel. Right-hand through-passage doorway, now blocked, is quoined and has cyma-moulded arris and shaped lintel. 1st floor: two 2-light windows a 3-light window and a blocked 3-light window under hoodmould with decorative stops. The rear right-hand doorway is a later C17 type and may suggest that the western portion is an addition, giving an original 2-cell, through-passage plan which is common in this area.

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