Description

SE 32 NE ROTHWELL SANDERSON LANE
LS26 (east side)
Oulton

6/105 Royds Hall
5th June 1964 (Formerly listed as
Royds Hall
and gatepiers)

GV II

Farmhouse, now house. Early C18, altered and enlarged. Handmade red brick
in random bonds, with sandstone dressings, stone slate roof. Rectangular
plan made double-depth by early addition to rear under same roof. Two
storeys and 6 bays, with cellars and attics; almost symmetrical; prominent
dripmould, unusual separate chamfered quoins; in 4th bay a wooden doorcase
with carved consoles, altered cornice; vertical rectangular windows on both
floors with flat-arched gauged brick heads, the 1st, 3rd and 5th blocked with
modern brick and others with altered glazing; stone gable coping with
kneelers, large 3-flue gable chimneys partly corbelled out, with diagonal
centre flues; rear slope of roof raised to shallower pitch and carried down
over rear wall of 2 lower storeys, which is of less interest. Interior
altered.

Listing NGR: SE3561125753

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26429041

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)