Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)
Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum), Church Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1313933
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)
- Statutory Address:
- Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum), Church Street
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1313933
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)
- Statutory Address 1:
- Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum), Church Street
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:
- Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum), Church Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Haworth and Stanbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 02909 37214
History
From 1820 onwards, Haworth Parsonage was home to Patrick Bronte (1777-1861) and his three literary daughters: Charlotte (1816-55), Emily (1818-48), and Anne (1820-49). It was in this house that, as children and young adults, the Bronte sisters, with their brother Branwell (1817-48) wrote stories and poetry for their own amusement. It was here that most of the sisters’ novels were written: Emily’s Wuthering Heights (1847); Anne’s Agnes Grey (1847) and Tennant of Wildfell Hall (1848); and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1848) and Villette (1853). It was also at Haworth Parsonage that Charlotte died on 31 March 1855.
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 July 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SE 0237 and SE 0337
21/31
KEIGHLEY
Haworth
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)
23.2.55
GV
I
Parsonage, now museum. 1779, altered and extended 1872, restored later. Coursed dressed millstone grit. Stone slate roof. Two storeys, five bays with cross wing of 1872 to right. Left-hand portion: sashes in slightly projecting stone architraves with moulded cills. Central, panelled, part-glazed door with knocker in pedimented Tuscan doorcase with pilasters, frieze and cornice, flanked by two windows to each side. Five windows above. Continuous lintel band to first floor. Dentilled eaves. End stacks. Cross wing has windows in slightly projecting stone architraves with moulded cills, that to ground floor of three lights with cill on consoles, that to first floor of two sashed lights. Iron finial. Interior: stone stairs and round-headed staircase arch; original doors; flagstone floors; simple iron fireplaces; window shutters, iron range and moulded ceiling beams in kitchen. Occupied by the Bronte family from 1820 onwards. Most of the novels were written here.
This listing was enhanced in 2016 to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth.
Listing NGR: SE0290937214
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338119
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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