The late Middle Ages witnessed the growing prosperity of the upper Calder valley as a result of a major expansion of the cloth trade, and this prosperity is reflected in a number of surviving domestic buildings from this period, though the medieval…
The late Middle Ages witnessed the growing prosperity of the upper Calder valley as a result of a major expansion of the cloth trade, and this prosperity is reflected in a number of surviving domestic buildings from this period, though the medieval…
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
Oldest of local homesteads, rich with features illustrative of many centuries of house architecture internal and external, it is fitting that Shibden Hall…