Binroyd, Norland

The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913. Binryod stands on the north-easterly slopes of Norland. The stream runs close by and Copley village and Sterne Bridge are about equi-distant. The frontage looks out towards the moor and from that point especially the building attracts attention, for its five gables of varied proportions are distinctive and exceptional. The date of the building has not been ascertained but on a mistal, rebuilt between 20 and 30 years ago, two old stones have been inserted over the doorway with the date 1677 and three or four initials. The building has been put down as the early half of the 16th century; there is ample evidence that a much older building of timber has been cased with stone. In one of the upper rooms there is elaborate plaster work acquired in 1913 by the Halifax Antiquarian Society. PH/28.