Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)

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SE 0237 and SE 0337 21/31

KEIGHLEY Haworth CHURCH STREET (south side) Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)

23.2.55

GV I

Parsonage, now museum. 1779, altered and extended 1872, restored later. Coursed dressed millstone grit. Stone slate roof. Two storeys, five bays with cross wing of 1872 to right. Left-hand portion: sashes in slightly projecting stone architraves with moulded cills. Central, panelled, part-glazed door with knocker in pedimented Tuscan doorcase with pilasters, frieze and cornice, flanked by two windows to each side. Five windows above. Continuous lintel band to first floor. Dentilled eaves. End stacks. Cross wing has windows in slightly projecting stone architraves with moulded cills, that to ground floor of three lights with cill on consoles, that to first floor of two sashed lights. Iron finial. Interior: stone stairs and round-headed staircase arch; original doors; flagstone floors; simple iron fireplaces; window shutters, iron range and moulded ceiling beams in kitchen. Occupied by the Bronte family from 1820 onwards. Most of the novels were written here.

This listing was enhanced in 2016 to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth.

Listing NGR: SE0290937214