Northorpe Hall
NORTHORPE HALL, NORTHORPE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184005
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Northorpe Hall
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHORPE HALL, NORTHORPE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1184005
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1977
- List Entry Name:
- Northorpe Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- NORTHORPE HALL, NORTHORPE LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NORTHORPE HALL, NORTHORPE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Kirklees (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Mirfield
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 21357 21152
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 340827
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pobjoy, H N, A History of Mirfield, (1968)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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