Upper Headley Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. A Elizabeth I Hall. 4 related planning applications.
Upper Headley Hall
- WRENN ID
- strange-sentry-sage
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Bradford West MP: Naz Shah (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Hall
- Period
- Elizabeth I
- Address
- Upper Headley Hall, Headley Lane
- OS grid reference
- SE 097 321
- Coordinates
- 53.78566, -1.85297
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Upper Headley Hall is a remarkably unaltered hall built by the Midgley family during the reign of Elizabeth I. It is constructed of coursed gritstone with a stone slate roof. The gabled west wing features moulded saddle stones and shaped kneelers, one inscribed "W Midgley" and the other dated 1589. The porch is dated 1604. Stone slate roofs are topped with 19th-century corniced chimneys.
The entrance front has a sequence of chamfered mullioned-transomed windows, unusually retaining their original leaded glazing and wrought iron casements. The main hall window has a drip mould and two rows of eight lights, with leaded panes of an unusual design. The central pane of each light is diamond-shaped, and the top three panes are round-headed with subsidiary divisions to the spandrels, creating a Perpendicular tracery effect. Chamfered mullioned windows are also present on the side and rear elevations.
The steeply gabled porch has moulded saddle stones, shaped kneelers, and a crowning carved stone finial. The outer doorway has moulded jambs and a four-centred arch within a squared head, with a drip mould above. The spandrels are inscribed "IM" and "1604," the drip mould is carved with "LM" at the return and "M" in the apex of the gable, and the original door has sliding bar sockets in the wall.
The interior retains carved oak doors, rail and muntin panelling and partitioning, and a staircase.
Local climate
Upper Headley Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 29 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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