Description

AIREBOROUGH BINGLEY ROAD
SE 14 SE
LS 20 (south side, off)
Menston
4/36 High Royds Hall
-
- II

Farmhouse, now house. Early to mid C17, altered as cottages c.1900, recently
restored. Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roof. Large
2-unit plan with continuous rear outshut making one-and-half depth,
projecting porch at left end of front. Three storeys, 3 bays. Chamfered
plinth, continuous dripmoulds on lower 2 levels; 2-storey gabled porch at
left end has a chamfered Tudor-arched doorway in its re-entrant side, a
round-headed peep-window in the front, at 1st floor a similar peep-window in
the side and a 2-light mullioned window in the front with a hoodmould, and
gable coping with kneelers; to the right, deeply-recessed chamfered mullion
windows on all floors (all with restored rendered or concrete mullions)1
5, 2 and 6 lights at ground floor, 4, 4 and 4 at 1st floor and 2, 2, and 2
lights under the eaves at 2nd floor. Large ridge chimney at junction of
bays; gable copings with kneelers. Both return walls have modern gabled
porches and similar mullioned windows, some probably insertions and other
with hoodmoulds; left return wall has a blocked taking-in doorway between
ground and 1st floors near the front. Rear has similar windows and a modern
gabled-dormer stairlight.

Interior: back-to-back fireplaces, that in the housebody (1st unit) approx.
2 metres wide, with segmental arched head, and the other approx. 1 1/2 metres
wide, with Tudor-arched lintel; chamfered beams with blunt cyma stops; two
king-post roof trusses of large scantling, with raked struts, curved
principals carrying slightly trenched over-lapped purlins, and convex curved
longitudinal struts from the kingposts to the ridge.

Listing NGR: SE1692542809

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599637

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Recommended Books

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide