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Barkisland Hall - HLS01248
Tags: Architecture, Barkisland, Buildings, Drawing, Halifax, Halifax Courier Ltd., 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
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
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
Crawstone Hall, Greetland - HLS01252
With its old-fashioned gateway and courtyard it has still on this side much the same appearance it had when…
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…
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…
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…
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
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
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…
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
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
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…