| Catalogue Finding Number | WYHER/12245 |
| Office record is held at | Historical Environment Record, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service |
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| Title | Site of Stoney Royd House, Southowram |
| Description | Stoney Royd House, Halifax, built c.1764 (SE 09921 24181)
Stoney Royd House was an early brick built house built for Christopher Rawson, the third son of John Rawson of Bolton before 1764.
Stoney Royd was a large, high status house set in a parked landscape occupying the steep slopes of Southowram Bank. The main house body measured c.22m by 15m with a formal entrance on the north elevation with a carriage drive in front (information derived from the OS Halifax 1:1056 scale town plan. c.1850). Extending the house to the south was an attached range of unknown function with an irregular plan c.29m long. The house and immediate gardens were situated on a terrace cut into the hill side. Running from north to south through the park was a carriage drive with gate lodges present at both entrances. A detached lodge house was present to the immediate east of Stoney Royd House.
The site was bought by Halifax Corporation in 1860, and Edward Milner won a competition to redesign the park grounds as a cemetery. It opened in 1861, and the northern section was consecrated on 11 September 1862. By the late 19th century Stoney Royd House was in use as the Borough Fever Hospital (OS 6' 2nd edition. c.1894. Sheet 231). The house was demolished in the second half of the twentieth century (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoney_Royd_Cemetery. Web site accessed 22/05/2013).
Although the house has now been demolished, its position can be identified as the terraced area on which it sat survives. A building occupying the position of the lodge is also extant. This building has a 19th century appearance however and may not be contemporary. The parkland perimeter and main drive also survives, being incorporated into the 1861 cemetery layout (http://maps.google.co.uk/. Web site accessed 23/05/2013). |
| Date | 21st century |
| Extent | contact the West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service for information on what is available |
| Level | Item |