Northorpe Hall

MIRFIELD UD NORTHORPE LANE SE 22 SW (Mirfield)

2/140 7/9/77 Northorpe Hall

G.V. II

Large house, now used as training school. C17 with C19 alterations and recent extensive restorations. Hammer dressed stone. Quoins. Stone slate roof with hollow chamfered gable copings (mainly new). Two storeys and attics. Three-gabled front with 2-storey gabled porch to left and centre gable. Throated drip mould (new) to ground and 1st floors of right 2 bays. Open porch with Tudor arched lintel. Internal doorway has ovolo moulded surround and arched head with original studded door. Left bay is C19 at front, though traces of C17 windows at rear, and has a large 2-light window to each floor. All other windows new including 6-light mullioned and transomed window to porch, 1st floor. 4-light windows to centre and right bays, both floors and 2-light blocked windows to attics. Added wing to rear of centre bay.

Inside is a plaque reading E.T. 1704 (Edward Thomas).

The house was the home of the Northorp family and later of the Armytages of Kirklees. Partly rebuilt by Josiah Sheard in 1701 (Pobjoy).

H. N. Pobjoy, A History of Mirfield, 1968.

Listing NGR: SE2135721152