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Great Burlees, Hebden Bridge - HLS00150
The Grade II house dates from the late 16th century.
Great Burlees, Wadsworth - EWW00144
Home of Henry Cockroft (later of Little Burlees) when Surveyor in 1740. Later home of William Cockroft (Surveyor 1763-67).
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…
Gunthwaite Hall Barn, near Huddersfield - HLS01447
PH11/20. July 1958.
Hawden Hall Tea Rooms, Hardcastle Crags, c1910 - ALC00107
After the war Billy Holt opened a holiday camp in Hardcastle Crags using army surplus tents.
Hawden Hole, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH01099
Postcard with April 1949 postmark. Hawden Hole is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside on today’s Lee Wood Road between Midgehole and Hebden Hey and above the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally infamous murder of…
Hawden Hole, Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge. - WMH01110
Undated postcard. Hawden Hole, sub-titled 'The Better Hole' here, is situate on the south Hebden Dale hillside on today’s Lee Wood Road between Midgehole and Hebden Hey and above the lower part of Hardcastle Crags. It was the site of the locally…
Hazlehurst Hall, Ambler Thorn, Queensbury
The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913.
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…
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…
Hazlewood Castle - HLS05888
Slide 1 - Hazlewood, the old baronial residence of the Vavasours, lies three miles west of Tadcaster in a well wooded park. Domesday Book is the first record of the existence of Hazlewood. It was then a thickly wooded manor, whose sylvan character is…
Hazlewood Castle - HLS05889
Slide 2 - These Vavasours were a knightly race going to battles often at Flodden, Newbury, Marston and others. It was Sir Walter Vavasour who at the end of the 18th century last renovated the old ancestral seat, changing it externally into a curious…
Hazlewood Castle , Porch to Chapel - HLS05895
Slide 8 - There is a South porch which is old, and over the entrance a statue of Saint Leonard.
One of the chief historic attractions of Hazlewood Castle and one that will sanctify it for the whole of its existence is the fact that from its towers…
One of the chief historic attractions of Hazlewood Castle and one that will sanctify it for the whole of its existence is the fact that from its towers…
Hazlewood Castle, Courtyard and Chapel - HLS05894
Slide 7 - Close to the Castle and nestling under its shadow is the ancient chapel of Saint Leonard.
The present fabric which has replaced a previous structure, was commenced during the reign of Edward the first. The King granted a charter for the…
The present fabric which has replaced a previous structure, was commenced during the reign of Edward the first. The King granted a charter for the…
Hazlewood Castle, Entrance Hall - HLS05893
Slide 6 - The entrance Hall or saloon which we now enter, measures about fifty feet by thirty and is a magnificent apartment. It is a typical example of the classic style of architecture which prevailed in the 18th century.
Above the cornice…
Above the cornice…
Hazlewood Castle, South West - HLS05892
Slide 5 - Hazlewood Castle is not a show place, it is perhaps too antique to be placed in rivalry with modern palaces in point of splendour, but to the sober tastes it need not fear in point of grandeur and dignity. The front of the mansion consists…
Healds Hall, Liversedge - RAC1957.072
Classical architecture, Garden
Heath Old Hall, Chimney Piece in Long Gallery - HLS05901
Slide 6: Mr John Wombwell, an East Indian Nabob (a person, especially a European, who has made a large fortune in India or another country of the East), who lived here towards the end of the eighteenth century, is said to have spent a large sum of…
Heath Old Hall, East Front - HLS05896
Slide 1: Heath Old Hall, the residence of Mr Gilbert Tennent, deservres to be accounted among the finest Yorkshire houses of the Elizabethan period. Its situation is striking, perched on a wooded cliff, overlooking the Calder Valley.
It appears to…
It appears to…
Heath Old Hall, from the South - HLS05898
Slide 3: The exterior is better described in picture than it can be in words. The elevated position of the house adds to its distinction, as well as its picturesqueness, as may be seen in the curious terraces and stairway on the south frontage, the…
Heath Old Hall, from the South East - HLS05897
Slide 2: Witham's son dying without issue, the property came to his sister Mary, better known as the munificent Lady Bolles. She was a wealthy ladyand was created a baroness in her own right. Lady Bolles dies at the Old Hall in May 1662 but was…
Heath Old Hall, Inner Hall and Staircase - HLS05900
Slide 5: The central hall as shown on slide, was formerly open to the sky to give light to the gallery on the first floor.
This well was afterwards roofed in, covered with glass by the Right honourable John Smythe, the owner of the Mansion. A…
This well was afterwards roofed in, covered with glass by the Right honourable John Smythe, the owner of the Mansion. A…