Allangate

Allangate is part of a former mansion, now subdivided, located on Rochdale Road in Halifax. The central block, which includes No. 118 and Nos. 114 and 116, was originally built by Bernard Hartley around 1810. The West Wing, known as No. 120, was added around 1845. Further additions were made around 1870 for Thomas Shaw, who was the Member of Parliament for Halifax from 1882 to 1893. He commissioned Christopher Dresser to remodel and decorate the interior between 1870 and 1873.

The building is constructed of thin coursed stone with ashlar dressings and features a blue-slate roof. It is designed in an Italianate style and consists of two and three storeys with basements.

Starting from the left, No. 120 has an entrance door in a narrow link, set back under a verandah with a glazed roof, and a small arched window above. The West Wing, part of No. 120, projects forward and has quoins and a single bay of windows with altered glazing. There is a three-light window to the basement or cellar, an ashlar frieze, and a stone cornice-gutter that runs around the hipped roof.

No. 118 features a doorway to the right of a window, which is covered by a modern conservatory. This section has a two-bay link with twin arched windows. The left-hand bay of the original house is set forward and has a tripartite window set in a recessed segmental arch with a single light above, both with altered glazing. The hipped roof has a tall stack on the left-hand return of the original house.

The interior includes part of the original Dining Room with the Dressing Room of the Principal Bedroom above. The left-hand end of the range reportedly contains the Butler's Pantry and the original Kitchen, which has the bells for the various rooms. The first floor of the West Wing may have housed the Billiard Room, described as a "large and airy apartment handsomely appointed, with walls of aesthetic green and chocolate tints" in the 1885 publication "Castles & County Houses in Yorkshire." The interior has not been inspected.