Search for listed buildings

Description: Nos. 215, 217, 219, 221 & 227, Castle Hill House and walls

Address: 215 - 223 Thornhill Road (odd) Rastrick Brighouse Calderdale HD6 3HL

Grade: II

Group detail: Thornhill Road Rastrick

Full description:
Five houses, originally a single small country house. c1800 with later C19 alterations and additions. Coursed rubble with ashlar dressings, and stone slate roofs, 5 stone stacks. 2 storey. East front, has slightly recessed central bay with 2 round headed doorways, now with windows, and a pair of Doric columned porches. To the left a square bay windows with plain sashes, and to the right a Venetian window with a central glazed door. Above a central tripartite sash window with either side 2 plain sashes. West, street front very irregular, Nos. 215, 217 and 227 have plain sashes, and an attached glazed entrance porch. Nos. 219 and 221, possibly the former lodge, has two C20 doors, and 2 windows with upper sections having ornate glazing, 3 upper casements have similar ornate glazing bars. Attached garden walls carved ashlar with curved coping and square piers, entrance section has rusticated stone work, with outer piers, concave walls and inner piers. Interior contains early C19 stone staircase with ornate iron balusters, plus a single fireplace made from fragments of C17 wooden furniture. Michael Fairless (Margaret Fairless Barber), the author of The Roadmender was born here in 1869.