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Description: Shibden Hall Museum

Address: Shibden Hall House Shibden Park Godley Lane Halifax West Yorkshire HX3 6XG

Grade: IISTAR

Group detail: Lister's Road (east, off) Shibden Park

Full description:
Shibden Hall Museum (Formerly Listed as: SHIBDEN PARK Shibden Hall) Includes: Shibden Hall Museum, LISTER'S ROAD, SHIBDEN PARK. House now museum. Late medieval, altered in later C16 and in 2nd quarter of C19 with minor C20 alterations. Original timber-framed building with hall and 2-storeyed cross-wings substantially survives: C16 work includes some casing in stone and new central rear wing. C19 work involved much renewal and some re-instatement of original form of building, also addition of tower to west and kitchens to east. Stone roofs. Cross-wings preserve exposed framing (partly renewed) with close-set vertical and diagonal members in sill-high stone base. Rear of each wing has stone facing to ground storey. Windows reconstructed. South side of hall set forward in C16 (stone and timber) with long mullioned windows transomed to ground storey. Simple stone north wing with gable. INTERIOR: very much renewed but some original and C16 work remains and also C17 panelling in one room on ground and 1st floors. Former buttery has bolection panelling and complete joinery of early C18. West tower of Norman character with pyramidal roof. Arcaded loggia to south of traditional kitchen wing with low battlemented tower.