Ponden Hall
Ponden Hall, Ponden Lane
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313937
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ponden Hall
- Statutory Address:
- Ponden Hall, Ponden Lane
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1313937
- Date first listed:
- 23-Feb-1955
- List Entry Name:
- Ponden Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- Ponden Hall, Ponden 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:
- Ponden Hall, Ponden Lane
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:
- SD9907437095
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 July 2021 to reformat text to current standards
SD 9837 and SD 9937
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KEIGHLEY
Scar Top
PONDEN LANE (north side)
Ponden Hall
23.2.55
GV
II*
Large house. 1634 with addition of 1801. For the Heatons. Coursed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Older portion, on right: three windows to each floor, on ground floor double-chamfered with mullions and transoms of four, five and four lights, on first floor of three-lights, the left and central windows with flat-faced mullions. dripmould over ground floor. Coping to right. External stack with diagonal shaft to right, corniced ridge stock to left. 1801 addition, on left: one wide bay. To right, pedimented doorcase with Tuscan pilasters, frieze and cornice. To left, a two-light flat-faced mullion window and similar six-light window above. Over doorway is round-arched niche with keystone and imposts containing tablet inscribed "the Old House now standing was built by Robert Heaton for his son Michael A.D. 1634". The Old Porch and Peat House was built by his grandson Robert Heaton A.D. 1680. The present building was rebuilt by his descendent R.H. 1801'. Corniced ridge stack.
Interior: fluted panelling in former library, original fireplaces, panelled doors, ceiling beams.
The Heatons were a family important in the local wool-spinning an weaving industry. The date-plaque refers to the original house, the addition to it, and a farmstead built on the opposite side of the road which was demolished in 1956. Emily Bronte, a friend of the family, often visited the house and used the library, and it is thought that the house might be the model for Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights.
M A Butterfield, The Heatons of Ponden Hall ..., (Bradford) 1976.
Listing NGR: SD9907437095
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338342
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Butterfield, M A, The Heatons of Ponden Hall, (1976)
Brontë, E, Wuthering Heights, ()
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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