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Hollin Hall - Hardcastle Crags - DMC00174
Hollin Hall is on the track to Crimsworth Dean, the track shown here going to the right leads to Shackleton Hill.
John Pickles & Son, Mytholm - DEP00145
View over Mytholm showing Mytholm Hall, and the King Street cottages that were prone to flooding. Right hand end of two storey house opposite was a Co-op. Bungalow in centre bottom was originally a Dawson City hut that was stone clad.
Christine…
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Crimsworth Valley - DTA00202
The Hollin Hall Pumping Station is on the left of the picture, and the centre is Hollin Hall Frame now the offices of the National Trust in Hardcastle Crags.
Looking up the Crimsworth Valley - DTA00248
Hollin Hall farm can be seen on the left
Old Edge, Colden - EWW00124
Roof feature before the building was renovated in the mid 1970s.
Old Edge, Colden - EWW00126
Roof feature before the building was renovated in the mid 1970s.
Old Edge, Colden - EWW00131
Grade II* listed building.
Substantial remains of an early C16 timber-framed open hall, encased in stone in the
early C17 with added porch dated 1676, restored with some rebuilding c.1975.
3-room through passage plan with rear kitchen wing. Double…
Substantial remains of an early C16 timber-framed open hall, encased in stone in the
early C17 with added porch dated 1676, restored with some rebuilding c.1975.
3-room through passage plan with rear kitchen wing. Double…
Inscription over fireplace, Front Parlour, High Sunderland - EWW00135
"SI PROPRIVS STETERIS FLAGRAS SI LONGIVS ALGES" - translation given as "If you stand too near you burn If too far away you freeze. Other inscriptions possibly "Terriera (?) Vide" = 'Observe the earthly things'; "Caelcftia Crede" - 'Think in a…
Little Burlees, Wadsworth - EWW00141
The porch was built by William Cockroft who acted as Surveyor in the years 1736, 1747 and 1752. Here also lived Henry Cockroft who was Surveyor for the years 1769-71 and died in office. Picture taken 1948. The deep-set double chamfered windows were…
High Sunderland Hall, Halifax - EWW00142
High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c. 1600 just outside Halifax, and demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. Originally a timbered house, a striking stone frontage was added in the 17th century. Early residents played exciting…
High Sunderland Hall, near Halifax - EWW00143
The front of the house showing the main doorway. High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c 1600 just outside Halifax, and demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction. The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily…
Great Burlees, Wadsworth - EWW00144
Home of Henry Cockroft (later of Little Burlees) when Surveyor in 1740. Later home of William Cockroft (Surveyor 1763-67).
Roof detail, Old Edge, Colden - EWW00149
Grade II* listed building.
Substantial remains of an early C16 timber-framed open hall, encased in stone in the
early C17 with added porch dated 1676, restored with some rebuilding c.1975.
3-room through passage plan with rear kitchen wing. Double…
Substantial remains of an early C16 timber-framed open hall, encased in stone in the
early C17 with added porch dated 1676, restored with some rebuilding c.1975.
3-room through passage plan with rear kitchen wing. Double…
Great House, Colden - EWW00162
Grade II listed building. A fine example of a yeoman clothiers house. The original house was built in the second half of C16 with early C17 new front to west wing.
Hall-and-cross-wings plan with rear kitchen wing rebuilt early C19.
The housebody and…
Hall-and-cross-wings plan with rear kitchen wing rebuilt early C19.
The housebody and…
Old Hall, Cragg Vale, Mytholmroyd. - WAO00238
Originally built in 1617 it was re-built in the 1830s having fallen into disrepair.
Historic Homes of Yorkshire
The opening lantern slide used by George Hepworth when he gave his lecture on the Historic Homes of Yorkshire to the Hebden Bridge Literary & Scientific Society in 1916.
Barkisland Hall - HLS05702
Slide 1 - This Hall stands about midway between the villages of Ripponden and Stainland and is unique in the Parish of Halifax, in that it has three floors, and its porch is carried up to the height of the building.
Barkisland Hall, the Entrance Porch - HLS05703
Slide 2 - Barkisland Hall belongs to the style of architecture fashionable in the days of the unfortunate Charles, and is a fine example of the period. It is a three storied, three gabled building, and consisted originally of a centre 'House Body',…
Burton Agnes Hall, the South Front - HLS05706
Slide 1 - Burton Agnes, the ancient seat of the Boyntons, is one of the most beautiful Tudor and Jacobean houses in Yorkshire.
Lying in pleasant country between Driffield and Bridlington, it is surrounded by woodland and standing upon a slight…
Lying in pleasant country between Driffield and Bridlington, it is surrounded by woodland and standing upon a slight…
Burton Agnes Hall, South Front from Cross Path - HLS05707
Slide 2 - Burton Agnes came to the Boyntons through the marriage of Sir Matthew Boynton of Barmston with the daughter of Sir Henry Griffiths of Burton Agnes.
Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, son and successor of Sir Matthew Boynton succeeded to…
Sir Francis Boynton of Barmston, son and successor of Sir Matthew Boynton succeeded to…
Burton Agnes Hall, Twelfth Century Crypt Adjoining Hall - HLS05708
Slide 3 - The earliest remains of domestic architecture here are in a building immediately to the west of the Hall, the basement of which is vaulted on cylindrical piers, with volute Capitals, of the Transitional Period (about C. 1170), and is…
Burton Agnes Hall, Wooden Wheel for Pumping Water - HLS05709
Slide 4 - In the outbuilding facing the Kitchen Court is an interesting relic of bygone days - an old wheel some fourteen feet in diameter, made of wood, and formally used for pumping water, by man-power, from a draw well.
As will be noticed, the…
As will be noticed, the…