Browse Items (105 total)
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Brearley Hall, Mytholmroyd - HLS01271
Few homesteads are more pleasantly situated than Brearley Hall, which stands on an eminence between Mytholmroyd and Luddenden Foot. Antiquaries tell us…
Tags: 1910s, Brearley, Brearley Hall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Mytholmroyd, Sketch
Broadbottom, Mytholmroyd - HLS01270
Broadbottom, a cluster of houses rather than a single homestead is an ancient settlement on the Wadsworth side of Calder Valley, on the edge of the wood…
Tags: 1910s, Broadbottom Farm, Drawing, Farm, Farm house, Farmhouse, Farms, Halifax Courier Ltd., Mytholmroyd, Sketch
Mytholmroyd Farm - HLS01269
Originally known as simply ‘Mytholmroyd’ and said to have given its name to the village. In a will dated 1549 Richard Draper of ‘Michomroode’ is referred…
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
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
Coley Hall - HLS01266
The architecture has unique features and an interesting history attaches to the house. From the latter part of the 13th century the Rysshworth family had…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Coley Hall, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch
Wynter Edge Hall, Hipperholme - HLS01265
The ancient homestead stands on a knoll near Coley Church and commands extensive views, especially southwards. From its exposed position its name is…
St Giles House, Lightcliffe - HLS01264
The building is a fine, antiquated, ivy-clad, pointed gable house, the owner of which is Mr Richard Kershaw of Crow Nest, Lightcliffe and the present…
Holdsworth House, Holmfield - HLS01263
Passing up the main road from Holmfield Station to the district known as Holdsworth, attention is attracted by iron gates at the entrance to the remains…
Staups House, Shibden - HLS01262
One of several old homesteads in Shibden valley. Staups dates back well over 300 years, for documentary evidence tells of a John Bentley compounding for…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Shibden, Sketch, Staups House
High Sunderland, Halifax - HLS01261
A unique building, crumbling to pieces; but for unsightly buttresses some of the walls would fall; the pillars and figures on the south porch are…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., High Sunderland, Sketch
Shibden Hall, Halifax - HLS01260
Oldest of local homesteads, rich with features illustrative of many centuries of house architecture internal and external, it is fitting that Shibden Hall…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Shibden Hall, Sketch
Willow Hall, Cote Hill - HLS01259
Built about 1610, Upper Willow Hall (that delightful old-world building at Cote Hill) is undoubtedly the successor of a much older building. Although in…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Cote Hill, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Willow Hall
Broadley Hall, Halifax - HLS01258
“One of the beautiful halls of Ovenden Wood, overlooking the Wheatley Valley from the Mount Tabor side. It derives its name from the Broadley or…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Broadley Hall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch
Backhall, Siddal - HLS01257
The house was built in 1668 by Thomas Hanson upon the site of an ancient homestead that existed in the 13th century. The structure is in excellent…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Backhall, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Siddal, Sketch
Woodhall, Skircoat - HLS01256
Said to occupy the site of a much older building, Woodhall bears the date 1580 on the porch. The letters 'JW' are also to be found. There is little…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch, Woodhall
Hope Hall, Halifax - HLS01255
Hope Hall (Hope House originally) is thought to have been built some 160 years ago by David Stansfield (1719-1769). In its earlier days it was a…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Hope Hall, Sketch
Piece Hall, Halifax - HLS01254
The Halifax manufacturers’ Hall was opened on Jan 2, 1779 for the use of the textile manufacturers of the district. It has been declared that as a…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Piece Hall, Sketch
Sunnybank, Greetland - HLS01253
Sunnybank is one of the few remaining timber-built houses in the parish. It presents a quaint sight and a decaying one, especially on the north side. …
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Greetland, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch, Sunnybank
Crawstone Hall, Greetland - HLS01252
With its old-fashioned gateway and courtyard it has still on this side much the same appearance it had when…
Clay House, Greetland - HLS01251
There is uncertainty as to the date of this picturesque hall – now divided into two…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Buildings, Clay House, Drawing, Greetland, Halifax Courier Ltd., Sketch
New Hall, Elland - HLS01250
The hall stands on the hillside between the Upper and Lower Edges. It is one of the domestic buildings of the 14th century and in all probability was…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Drawing, Elland, Halifax Courier Ltd., New Hall, Sketch
Howroyde Hall, Barkisland - HLS01249
Howroyde, with its ivy-clad walls, rookery, fish pond and glorious prospect of hill and dale, is deeply impressed with old-world characteristics. It was…
Tags: 1910s, Architecture, Barkisland, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Howroyde Hall, Sketch
Barkisland Hall - HLS01248
Tags: Architecture, Barkisland, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., Hall, Sketch