Cloth Hall

The Cloth Hall is a house located on the site of a former cloth hall in Heptonstall. It dates from the late 16th century or early 17th century and was originally a single-storey building, which was raised to two storeys, likely in the mid-18th century. The structure features large dressed stone on the first floor and smaller hammer-dressed stone above, topped with a stone slate roof.

The front elevation facing the road has a large dressed stone plinth, which likely served as the footings for the original timber-framed building. To the left of the paired doorways (one of which is blocked), there is a two-light flat-faced mullioned window with a projecting sill. The doorways have monolithic jambs, one of which bears the recently inscribed legend "THE CLOTH HALL." There are also two altered windows with slight chamfered surrounds dating from around 1545 to 1558, and another blocked doorway with monolithic jambs.

On the first floor, there are three chamfered mullioned windows, each with two lights. The left-hand return wall shows an earlier roof line that is clearly discernible, and within this wall, there is a two-light chamfered mullioned window that lacks a mullion. In the added roof, there is a small window to the attic with a plain stone surround. At the apex of the roof, there is an original carved apex stone with a crocketed finial.

The rear of the building faces a graveyard and features three surviving windows, probably of two lights, with chamfered surrounds, as well as another window with three lights. The first floor also has three flat-faced mullioned windows of two lights. The building has two stacks on the ridge. It is illustrated in K. Parry's "Trans-Pennine Heritage" (1981) on page 65.