Royds Hall, Centre Portion of the South Front

Slide 2 – A date and arms over the porch on the South Front fix the date of the erection of the central portion of the house at 1640. Another portion of the East End bears the date 1651 and the West Wing that of 1656. The extreme eastern end was added in 1770 by the last of the family, Edward Rooke – Leedes, and is an addition detracting much from the appearance of the rest of the Mansion.