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Title: Kershaw House, Midgley - HLS01268
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Title
Kershaw House, Midgley - HLS01268
Description
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
From the point of view of preservation it is one of the finest local old buildings. Almost square, it is adorned by eleven stone-pinnacled gables and two double-storied porches, the one in front containing a lovely rose window the stone work of which is as good as when first fashioned. Some of the original coloured glass and diamond-shaped leaded panes remain, and the exterior restorations have been merely the replacing of a few mullions and sills, and the cutting away of a few stone waterspouts. Of the internal arrangement little of the original style remains. There was possibly an older building on the site, but the house as we now see it was built by James Murgatroyd of Murgatroyd (The Hollins) for his youngest son, Thomas. The initials over the front entrance, ‘TM, AM, 1650’, are those of Thomas Murgatroyd and his wife. PH/28
From the point of view of preservation it is one of the finest local old buildings. Almost square, it is adorned by eleven stone-pinnacled gables and two double-storied porches, the one in front containing a lovely rose window the stone work of which is as good as when first fashioned. Some of the original coloured glass and diamond-shaped leaded panes remain, and the exterior restorations have been merely the replacing of a few mullions and sills, and the cutting away of a few stone waterspouts. Of the internal arrangement little of the original style remains. There was possibly an older building on the site, but the house as we now see it was built by James Murgatroyd of Murgatroyd (The Hollins) for his youngest son, Thomas. The initials over the front entrance, ‘TM, AM, 1650’, are those of Thomas Murgatroyd and his wife. PH/28
Creator
Arthur Comfort
Date
1910s
Rights
PHDA - Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Relation
Pennine Horizons Digital Archive
Identifier
HLS01268.tif
Collection
Citation
Arthur Comfort, “Kershaw House, Midgley - HLS01268,” Pennine Horizons Digital Archive, accessed April 27, 2024, https://penninehorizons.org/items/show/6558.
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