Norland Hall

SOWERBY BRIDGE LONDON ROAD SE 0623-0723 (east side, off), Norland 13/109 Norland Hall 15.11.66 GV II Farmhouse. Dated 'IBT 1690' (John and Betty Taylor), restored and altered 1960s. Large blocks of coursed squared stone, coursed rubble to left return; stone slate roof. 2 storeys, 2 gabled bays. South-west (garden) front: central 2-storey gabled porch: cusped plinth with whorl decoration; moulded doorway with round-cornered soffit to monolithic lintel; above it a 1-over-3-light window with hoodmould and datestone over; shaped kneelers, moulded coping, ball finials (only bases survive on kneelers); gutter spout in angle with main range on right; chamfered lst-floor oculus in left return; inner stone benches and board door in moulded Tudor-arched surround with diamond on stop of left jamb. Main range: chamfered plinth; double-chamfered mullion windows. Left bay has an 8-light window with king mullion, continuous ground-floor dripmould and, above a 4-light transomed window with decoratively-stopped hoodmould. Right bay similar but ground -floor window has 3-lights made into a doorway, now blocked, the dripmould terminates in starred roundels and the 1st-floor hoodmould has heart-and-diamond stops. Kneelers, shaped coping, ball finials. Corniced external stack to left, 1960s external stack to right. Rear: rendered. 2 gabled bays, right one slightly set forward. Windows are single-chamfered. Left bay has doorway inserted to left of 2-light window with 3-light window above. Right bay has 2-light window (mullion removed) on left, 3-light flat-faced mullion window to right, and 3-light window above. Kneelers, coping. Eaves stack to ends. Left return: right part is gabled. The external stack is quoined and stepped; to its right is a lowered 2-light window with hoodmould. To left end a 3-light window with 2-light single- chamfered window above. Right return: to right of external stack wall is of 1960s rebuild. Interior: front left room has restored Tudor-arched moulded fireplace with central shield pendant dated 'ITB and cornice. Front right room has moulded, 1690' decoratively-stopped, Tudor-arched fireplace and imported C17 2-panel door with decorative heads to panels. The house was built by John Taylor as a residence for a younger son, also John. Taylor himself lived at the original Norland Hall, just to the west of this building, which was dismantled and exported in the early C20 (Kendall 1904, p.l0l and 1910). H P Kendall, "Ancient Halls of Norland", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol 2, 1904, pp.93-1ll. " H P Kendall, "Norland Hall", Halifax Antiquarian Society, Vol 8, 1911, pp.1-39.

Listing NGR: SE0699823275