| Description | Hoyle House, Warley.
'Friendly Nos 1, 2, 3 and 4 Hoyle House GV II Farmhouse, now 4 dwellings. Early C17 for John Ramsden (Sutcliffe, p35), subdivided C19, and part rebuilt 1885 for Mrs M Leigh. Coursed squared stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays, the 2 left bays rebuilt 1885 (originally gabled), the 3 right bays gabled with rear range and the 2 right hand most ones projecting forward. Double chamfered mullion windows throughout. The 2 left bays, No 1: C20 door in quoined surround with segmental arched overlight and lintel dated '18 ML 85'; to either side on each floor a transomed 4 light window; ground floor dripmould with decorative stops, right one possibly C17 and reused; shaped gutter brackets; shaped kneelers with finials; coping; end stacks. C17 part: No 2, on left, has door in added porch to right of transomed 5 light window with probably 3 light window above (ivy covered). No 3, in centre, has C19 door to left of transomed 5 light window with 4 light window above under hoodmould. No 4, on right, has transomed 5 light window with square light to left and 4 light window above under hoodmould. The 2 right bays have continuous ground floor hoodmould, valley gutter spout with rams head (Ramsden symbol), shaped kneelers, coping and finials. Corniced stack between right hand bays; truncated external stack to right.
Rear: C17 part: 3 bays, outer bays gabled. Left bay has shouldered external gable stack, central bay a 4 light and a 2 light, now 1 light, window to 1st floor.
Right return: hoodmould returns as string; on left of external stack a blocked Tudor arched doorway and a C19 door way with short 2 light, now 1 light, window above; to right of stack a C19 doorway and a 5 light window to each floor.
Interior of No 3: 1 low, chamfered, Tudor arched fireplace with a chamfered, quoined, Tudor arched doorway to its left and quoins in wall to left of this possibly indicating that the rear range is an addition. The wall opposite also has a quoined angle, and a wall plate with part of panelled partition wall surviving. Between front and rear rooms is a plank and muntin partition wall, the stiles and rails with grooved decoration and a door on the right with 2 decorated arched panels and a lintel with incised cross. Chamfered spine beams. On 1st floor more panelling with grooved stiles (inserted); in the roof of the rear range 2 king post trusses with V struts and wind braces; a similar truss in the front roof. A datestone removed from the ground floor fire place of No 2 and reset in its front wall reads '17 IN 37', the initials being those of Isaac Naylor who came into possession c1731, his father, Anthony having acquired the property in 1720 (Sutcliffe p36). In the late C18 the building was used as a cotton mill (Sutcliffe p39). T Sutcliffe, 'Some Old Warley Houses; Halifax Antiquarian Society, 9th April 1918, pp 33.)'.
(English Heritage listed building description. Date listed 19/07/1988. http://list.english heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1134425. Web site accessed 13/01/2013). |