BARKISLAND HALL

BARKISLAND HALL, STAINLAND ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1276881
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: BARKISLAND HALL
Statutory Address:: BARKISLAND HALL, STAINLAND ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1276881
Date first listed:: 15-Aug-1966
List Entry Name:: BARKISLAND HALL
Statutory Address 1:: BARKISLAND HALL, STAINLAND 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:: BARKISLAND HALL, STAINLAND ROAD

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

District:: Calderdale (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Ripponden
National Grid Reference:: SE 06070 19934

Details

SE 01NE RIPPONDEN (former U.D.) STAINLAND ROAD SE 060199 (north side), Barkisland

6/170 Barkisland Hall

15.8.66

GV I

House, 1638 for John Gledhill. Finely dressed stone, stone slate roof. Large magnificent house, double-pile with a fully developed F-plan throwing its porch into prominence. Unlike all other contemporary houses in the area it is of 3 storeys. Plinth, string course over ground and 1st floor windows, hoodmoulds with label stops to 2nd floor. 3-gabled facade linked by parapet with finely carved detail to this front. All windows are double chamfered mullioned and transomed with king mullions. and cyma-moulded mullions and transoms and elaborate label stops. 16-light window with 12-light windows over to 1st and 2nd floors. Projecting porch has elaborate doorway with Tudor arched lintel inscribed "1638 IG SG" with a carved face to the centre, moulded impost and moulded jambs with broach stop. The inner doorway of the porch is an arch, with moulded imposts and rusticated voussoirs. This is flanked by 2 orders of fluted columns, Doric supporting Ionic, the pedestals carved with an elaborate lozenge. Entablature with moulded string. 6-light window under which is carved bird and heraldic coat of arms. The top floor has a wheel window with tracery made up of 6 circles surrounding a central circle. Pedimented gable and parapet. Hall range has 24-light window with 18-light window over to 1st floor and 16-light to 2nd floor. Wing breaks forward; 16-light window with same over and 12-light window over to 2nd floor. Coped gables with bases for finials, carved figure to wing. The rear has double chamfered mullioned and transomed windows with plainer chamfered mullions. The 2 tiers of cross-windows at an intermediate level between storeys probably indicate. the site of the,original stair (which has been moved); the string course steps over these windows and is broken by the insertion of a taking-in door with monolithic jambs. Right hand return wall, of cross-wing, has similar windows all preserving their mullions and leaded paned glazing, and a stone inscribed "Nunc mea mox huius sed postea nescio cuius". The east wing has a large stack with a cluster of 8 diamond-set flues, "that to the west wing has 6 diamond set flues. Modern stack to central range.

Interior: Largely remodelled but lavishly panelled in C19 in imitation of the original period. The only early features are 3 C17 fireplaces, all have Tudor arched lintels. That to hall has richly moulded surround. That to the south parlour of the west wing is inscribed "1605 IG" and is probably reused. The east wing has a fireplace with finely carved jambs with foliated balusters with scrolled capitals surmounted by carved faces. This is very similar to that in the hall of Norland Lower Old Hall, Sowerby Bridge (q.v.) dated 1634 and is likely to have been executed by the same mason.

In effect the shell of a magnificent house, listed at Grade I as one of the finest prodigy houses of Calderdale. L. Ambler, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (London, 1913) p.16, 77. D. Hey, Buildings of Britain 1550 - 1750 Yorkshire, (Ashbourne, 1981) p.58, 60. T. W. Hanson, The Story of Old Halifax, (Halifax, 1920), p.121. N. Pevsner, Yorkshire West Riding, (London, 1967) p.90.

Listing NGR: SE0607019934

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 408101
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913), 16 and 77
Hanson, T W, The Story of Old Halifax, (1920), 121
Pevsner, N, Radcliffe, E, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire: The West Riding, (1967), 90
Hey, D, 'Buildings of Britain 1550-1750' in Yorkshire Buildings of Britain 1550-1750, (1981), 58 and 60

Legal

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