The Royds Wakefield Road Denby Dale Huddersfield HD8 8SD

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A TRULY EXCEPTIONAL, PERIOD HOME, BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED THROUGHOUT ALL OF ITS THREE FLOORS OF IMPRESSIVE ROOMS AND ACCOMMODATION. IN THE HEART OF THE VILLAGE YET SET IN SUPERB MATURE AND SURPRISINGLY PRIVATE GARDENS AND GROUNDS. THE ROYDS WAS BUILT AT A TIME WHEN QUALITY OF FINISH WAS AT ITS HIGHEST WITH HIGH CEILINGS AND A TRULY STUNNING GALLERIED HALLWAY, WHEN VIEWED IT IS ASSURED THAT THE SIZE, DECOR AND PERIOD FEATURES WILL IMPRESS, WITH A VAST ARRAY OF FLEXIBLE ROOMS, OFF THE BEAUTIFUL PERIOD PANEL HALLWAY THE FOLLOWING ACCOMMODATION CAN BE FOUND; Drawing room, beautiful sitting room, large dining room/family room with glazed doors to garden, snug, library, beautiful breakfast/dining kitchen, utility room, cellar, six bedrooms, four being particularly large, bed one with en-suite, two house bathrooms, top floor office/study area with pleasant outbuildings all is approached through stone gate posts to an extremely long sweeping driveway. There are lovely well maintained family gardens and grounds, all in this highly commutable delightful village with all village amenities ranging from cricket club, pubs, restaurants, shops, train station and all 9 miles away from the M1. Offers around £875,000

81e North Road, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, HD8 0RL Tel: 01484 603399

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. ENTRANCE Beautiful oak and glazed timber door gives . access through to the magnificent reception hallway. This with galleried first floor landing and heavily decorated ceiling with beautiful chandelier point is a hallway that is truly remarkable. The period and very high quality staircase gently turns and rises up to the galleried landing. There is panelling all of which is finished to a beautiful design, a former fireplace with a delightful stone fireplace currently used for decorational purposes only. Natural light floods the area courtesy of two windows on the ground floor and a beautiful bank of lateral mullioned windows to the two thirds landing. This very large landing space has window seats and has a fine view over the hallway. A secret door gives access to an inner lobby.

INNER LOBBY This inner lobby gives access to a servants staircase and also a further door leads through to the downstairs w.c. fitted with low level w.c. and wash hand basin. From here a doorway leads through to the cellars.

The Royds has a whole host of impressive reception rooms all of which enjoy lovely views out over the gardens and grounds.

STUDY A welcoming family style room with two large period sash windows which overlook the property's driveway and gardens beyond. There is a delightful gas, pebble effect fire set within the broad chimney breast with chimney recess shelving. Across the hallway is the drawing room. DRAWING ROOM Once again a fabulous room yet again enjoying a lovely view out over the property's driveway and garden beyond but perhaps more magnificently very large windows with a super view out over the immediate and lower lawns beyond with beautiful shrubbery and trees. The very high ceiling height has coving to the ceiling, decorative oak work and a chandelier point. There is a huge amount of timber panelling to all walls to the two thirds height and in particular to the broad chimney breast. This with a stone surround and stone hearth has an antique brick back cloth and was home at one time for an open fired grate currently blocked. The room has generous proportions and is decorated to a high standard.

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. SITTING ROOM As the photographs and floor layout plan suggest the sitting room once again is of a generous size. It has a fabulous broad bay window giving lovely views down the gardens with mature trees and shrubbery giving a huge amount of privacy. There is coving and decorative work to the ceiling, central chandelier point, beautiful fireplace with open fired grate and broad hearth. The room as the rest of the home has high skirting boards and is decorated to a delightful standard.

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GARDEN ROOM/FORMAL DINING . ROOM The owners sometime ago decided to use this room as the formal dining room, please note there is a dining kitchen. There is a virtual full bank of glazing giving lovely views out over the property's gardens and doors being twin glazed giving direct access out to the gardens, there is also a further set of windows giving a pleasant outlook over the rear enclosed gardens. The room has a high ceiling with coving and inset spotlighting. LIBRARY . This delightful room has been used as a library by the family for many years, it has a pleasant outlook towards the rear and has a good ceiling height with chandelier point. It is a versatile space and could be used as a home office/study room if required.

DINING KITCHEN Once again a very large reception with fabulous windows giving delightful outlooks over the property's enclosed gardens and enclosed courtyard, there is timber effect flooring, high ceiling height with a variety of lighting points particularly broad chimney breast all of which is home for the Aga, this being of a four oven design has the usual chrome top hotplates and further warming plate to one side. Within the delightful high specification units there are integrated appliances including stainless steel and glazed fronted oven, double shaws classic ceramic sinks with chrome taps over, there is also an integrated hob within the island unit this with breakfast seating area, there are also glazed display cabinets, shelf racking and the dining area once again has a high ceiling height and a variety of windows. Doorway leads through to the rear entrance lobby and a further opening provides access through to the utility room.

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UTILITY ROOM This being of a particularly good size and has inset spotlighting to the ceiling, ceramic tile flooring, large amount of working surfaces with inset stainless steel sink unit.

From the entrance hallway, as previously described the fabulous gallery hall is home to the particularly majestic staircase. This turns and rises to a three quarter landing, beautiful bilateral mullioned window as previously described and the stairs continue with wonderful oak balustrading up to the first floor landing.

FIRST FLOOR LANDING . This has a delightful view back down towards the hallway, there is a doorway giving access to the servants staircase which also gains access to the first floor level, this has a staircase leading up to the top floor level. BEDROOM ONE . A beautiful double room positioned above the sitting room and having a spectacular view out over the property's gardens and village scene beyond, most of which concealed by the mature trees and shrubbery. Please note the driveway for The Royds gently passes through these mature trees and shrubs. Bedroom one has a bank of three mullioned windows and further window to the side, there is a bank of inbuilt wardrobes and a range of inbuilt bedroom furniture.

EN-SUITE . Beautifully finished with ball and claw foot double ended bath with Victorian handheld mixer tap/shower unit over, delightful Sanitan vanity unit with chrome towel rail and period style taps, high flush w.c. and window giving a pleasant outlook to the rear. The en-suite has the additional feature of a further door to the first floor landing. BEDROOM TWO At one time the principal bedroom, this beautifully finished bedroom has a wonderful array of spectacularly beautiful period bedroom furniture. This believed to have been in the home from day one is something that one must take a few moments of time to appreciate, there is a delightful vanity unit with marble surface and splash back, Shanks integrated ceramic wash hand bowl with two period taps over, inbuilt wardrobes, drawers, bed side drawers, further cabinets and a further bank of inbuilt wardrobes all around the beautiful fireplace this inbuilt bedroom furniture reaches up to the two thirds height. The room has five windows in total giving lovely views out over the gardens, driveway and beyond.

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BEDROOM THREE Once again a large double bedroom with a . bank of three windows giving an outlook to the rear, inset spotlighting to the ceiling, coving to the ceiling and all is presented to a high standard. HOUSE BATHROOM . Once again perhaps best demonstrated by the floor layout plan and photographs. Beautifully finished with a very large fixed glazed screen shower with high quality chrome fittings, twin Vernon Tutberry wash hand basin with mixer taps over, stlyish low level w.c., two large windows giving a large amount of natural light and pleasant views, chrome central heating radiator.

TOP FLOOR LEVEL Staircase continues up to the top floor level, the top floor landing has a useful storage cupboard, window giving a pleasant outlook to the side, the landing area continues through to a sitting area and through to a superb study area.

STUDY AREA Please note this space has been occupied by the families children and has been an incredible space for children's friends and family to come and stay, there been a whole host of rooms giving a huge amount of flexibility.

BEDROOM FOUR A lovely double room with two windows . giving an outlook to the driveway side, two roof light windows and broad steps and doorway leading through to the study/guest bedroom. STUDY/GUEST BEDROOM Spotlighting to the ceiling and window giving . a lovely view out over the gardens.

BEDROOM FIVE Yet again a lovely welcoming bedroom with . a super view out over the gardens, spotlighting to the ceiling.

BEDROOM SIX Beautifully presented having large roof light . window. HOUSE BATHROOM NUMBER TWO . Serving the three/four bedrooms, this is beautifully presented once again and has a ceramic tile floor, ball and claw foot bath, pedestal wash hand basin, low level w.c. window giving a pleasant outlook to the side, appropriate ceramic tiling to the walls and spotlighting to the ceiling.

LOWER GROUND FLOOR LEVEL At the lower ground floor level there are the property's cellars. These provide a good amount of storage space, there is external access doors and a wall mounted Worcester gas fired central heating boiler. This space offers potential for cinema room, gym and the like should this be required.

EXTERNAL Whilst being very close to Denby Dale village centre (opposite the cricket ground) the home sits within gardens and grounds which approach an acre and this large and mature garden plot provides a setting for the house well back from the road and with a driveway sweeping up through the mature trees between the road and the house itself. The mature trees and shrubbery are quite simply superb. The principal driveway corners onto Wakefield Road and Leak Hall Lane, the tarmacked broad access apron has delightful stone gate posts of a period design, displaying The Royds in carved stone. Tarmacadam driveway with classical rope edgings leads up to the very large reception driveway/turning circle infront of the home/main entrance door. The gardens surround the Royds but principally are at the southerly side set down from the home itself, this very large lawned garden area is enclosed by mature trees and shrubbery and is exceptionally well tended. The tennis court size lawn is over looked by the property's principal rooms and has lovely flowery and rockery beds leading up to the main house garden at the upper level.

UPPER GARDEN The upper garden is lawned and has stone flagging running the full width of the home and is accessed directly from the garden room glazed doors. It should be noted to the rear there is a delightful enclosed garden once again with attractive pathways and shaped lawns, this is principally overlooked by the dining kitchen and library, there is also an enclosed utility style courtyard with very useful outbuildings and high stone walling and gateway out to the secondary driveway.

SECONDARY DRIVEWAY This is in the ownership of The Royds and is a useful asset, it is this secondary driveway has a right of way over serving the neighbouring property (Leak House) GARDENS AND GROUNDS It should be noted the property sits beautifully in its relatively easy to maintain gardens and grounds and the location must be viewed to be fully understood and appreciated. Being just a walk away from Denby Dales many varied facilities including restaurants, shops, pub, school, church and railway station also having the added benefit of being a straight forward drive (approx 8/9 miles way from the M1 motorway and easy access to Wakefield train station being approx 20/25 minutes drive away. The home has an air of dignity and prosperity being an important home within the villages history this property must be internally viewed to be fully appreciated and understood.

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. VIEWING For an appointment to view, please contact the Kirkburton Office on 01484 603399

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