Calverley House Farmhouse

Calverley House Farmhouse is a house, now divided into two occupations, built around 1800 for Thomas Thornhill of Fixby Park, Huddersfield, who was the Lord of the Manor of Calverley. The building features finely dressed stone and a Welsh blue-slate roof. It is two storeys high with a symmetrical three-bay facade. The first floor has a sill band and an eaves cornice. The ground-floor bays have elliptical-arched recesses, with the central bay featuring a round-arched doorway that includes a fanlight, imposts, and side-lights, while the outer bays have windows with projecting sills. The first-floor windows are similar, with rectangular sunk panels above, and all windows have casements. The roof is hipped, with one stack on the left pitch and two stacks on the right pitch. The rear of the house is fenestrated like the front. The left-hand return has three bays, with the first two forming a segmental, full-height bow topped with a semi-conical roof. The third bay has an inserted French window set in an elliptical-arched recess. Although Thomas Thornhill never occupied the house, it was rented to notable tenants throughout the 19th century, including Ellis Cunliffe-Lister, an MP, whose son Samuel, later the 1st Lord Masham and owner of the largest wool-combing business in the world at Manningham Mills, Bradford, was born here.