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- Tags: Architecture
Great House, Midgley - HLS01267
The fact that most local townships have a Great House lends confirmation to the idea that at some time they were used as minor manor homes. The Midgley…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Great House, Halifax Courier Ltd., Midgley, Sketch
Kershaw House, Midgley - HLS01268
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…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Kershaw House, Midgley, Sketch
Old Cragg Hall, Mytholmroyd - HLS01272
The history of the original homestead is not available. Towards the close of the thirties, Mr Christopher Rawson obtained possession and as the structure…
Norland Hall - HLS01273
The hall occupies – or rather occupied – a prominent site on the spur of the hill overlooking Sterne Bridge. In the summer of 1912 lightning struck the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Norland, Norland Hall, Sketch
Norland Lower Hall - HLS01274
This hall overlooks Sowerby Bridge at the extremity of the straggling village of Norland. Like Norland Hall and Norland Upper Hall this homestead was…
Binroyd, Norland - HLS01275
Binroyd stands on the north-easterly slopes of Norland. The stream runs close by and Copley village and Sterne Bridge are about equi-distant. The…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Binroyd, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Norland, Sketch
Hazlehurst Hall, Ambler Thorn, Queensbury
Near Hill House lane. It as a fine old homestead, charming in its appearance of antiquity and beautifully situated. Small leaded windows are set in its…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Hazlehurst Hall, Queensbury, Sketch
Goat House,Rishworth - HLS01277
Now used as a farm house. It was fitted up after the death in 1724 of Mr John Wheelwright, the founder of Rishworth Grammar School, as a boarding house…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Goat House, Halifax Courier Ltd., Rishworth, Sketch
Upper Cockroft, Rishworth - HLS01278
In the upper part of Ryburn Valley, about a mile behind Rishworth Grammar School. It has really been two houses, the lower half being the older. In…
Shelf Hall - HLS01279
Old Shelf Hall, a plain looking building some centuries old and ruinous, overlooks the entrance to the new hall, erected in 1860 by the late Mr Samuel…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Shelf, Shelf Hall, Sketch
High Bentley, Shelf - HLS01280
The history of the Shelf Bentleys has been traced back to the 13th century. This homestead has on its doorway the date and lettering ‘RWL, 1661’, the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., High Bentley, Shelf, Sketch
St Anne's, Southowram - HLS01281
The name St Anne’s-in-the-Grove is usually associated with Southowram Church but the original title belongs to the residence situated further down the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Southowram, St Anne's
Walterclough Hall, Southowram - HLS01282
Walterclough dates back to the 14th century. The hall is on the western hill side overlooking Sunny Vale Gardens and about midway between that resort and…
Old Haugh End, Sowerby - HLS01283
A 17th century building, with additions of a later period which have destroyed the old arrangement considerably. It is a good example of the evolution of…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Old Haugh End, Sketch, Sowerby
Field House, Sowerby - HLS01284
Field House, the old home of the Stansfield family, occupies a commanding site overlooking Triangle and is one of the most imposing mansions around…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Field House, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Sowerby
Wood Lane Hall, Sowerby - HLS01285
Sowerby’s finest 17th century treasure, with the virtue of an unspoilt exterior. John Dearden cased the timber structure with stone in 1649. The…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch, Sowerby, Wood Lane Hall
Bentley Royd, Sowerby - HLS01286
Formerly approached through a dignified gateway, now demolished. The property, now divided into six cottages, has over its old doorway the initials of…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Bentley Royd, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Sowerby
Asquith Bottom House, Sowerby Bridge - HLS01287
The long, rambling and oddly-shaped old building occupies a somewhat obscure site directly beneath St George’s Church at Quarry Hill. No connected story…
Underbank, Sowerby Bridge - HLS01288
Underbank is on the upper side of the tram track where the Pye Nest route runs into Bolton Brow. Earliest records go back to about 1454, when Robert…
Clay House, Soyland - HLS01289
A long, straggling and many-gabled block of buildings, crumbling rapidly to decay. The sketch represents the courtyard in the centre of the ancient pile. …
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Clay House, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Soyland
Bradley Hall, Stainland - HLS01290
Under the hills on the Stainland side and overlooking the Blackburn Valley. It is said that Bradley Hall was the cradle of the Saviles. Originally the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Bradley Hall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch, Stainland
Jagger Green Hall, Stainland - HLS01291
This hall, standing on the hillside above Holywell Green and approached by road from Holywell Brook, is now divided into a farmhouse and three cottages. …
Todmorden Hall - HLS01292
Once in a secluded situation and surrounded by woods, but now hedged in by buildings and the railway. The hall itself has been scheduled in the 1913 L & Y…
Old Town Hall, Old Town - HLS01293
Old Town is the ancient village on Wadsworth hillside above Hebden Bridge. The hall is at the south west corner of the village green and at the extreme…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Old Town, Old Town Hall, Sketch
Warley House - HLS01295
A handsome structure which, occupied for the most part by men of culture and substance, has changed little since it was built. It was erected in 1769, the…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Warley, Warley House