CASTLE HILL HOUSE

CASTLE HILL HOUSE, 215,217,219,221 AND 227, THORNHILL ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236280
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1990
List Entry Name:: CASTLE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address:: CASTLE HILL HOUSE, 215,217,219,221 AND 227, THORNHILL ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1236280
Date first listed:: 11-Oct-1990
List Entry Name:: CASTLE HILL HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: CASTLE HILL HOUSE, 215,217,219,221 AND 227, THORNHILL ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: CASTLE HILL HOUSE, 215,217,219,221 AND 227, THORNHILL ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SE 13924 21711

Details

BRIGHOUSE THORNHILL ROAD SE 12 SW RASTERICK 3/214 Nos. 215, 217, 219 221 and 227, Castle Hill House, and wells.

II

Five houses, originally a single small country house. c1800 with later C19 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble with ashler dressings, and stone slate roofs, 5 stone stacks. 2 storey. East front, has slightly recessed central bay with 2 round headed doorways, now with windows, and a pair of Doric columned porches. To the left a square bay windows with plain sashes, and to the right a Venetian window with a central glazed door. Above a central tripartite sash window with eitherside 2 plain sashes. West, street front very irregular, Nos. 215, 217 and 227 have plain sashes, and an attached glazed entrance porch. Nos. 219 and 221, possibly the former lodge, has 2 C20 doors, and 2 windows with upper sections having ornate glazing, 3 upper casements have similar ornate glazing bars. Attached garden-walls carved ashler with curved coping and square piers, entrance section has rusticated stone work, with outer piers, concave walls and inner-piers. Interior contains early C19 stone staircase with ornate iron balusters, plus a single fireplace made from fragments of C17 wooden furniture. Michael Fairless (Margaret Fairless Barber), the author of The Roadmender was born here in 1869.

Listing NGR: SE1392421711

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Legacy System number:: 427236
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.