Photograph - Mono (Document ID: 100727)
42 & 40 Bull Green and Hopwood Hall, Halifax, West Yorkshire.
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Halifax
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 100727
Library ID: 090250
Bull Green is said to derive its name from the bull baiting which took place there in the 16th century. It may have been the site of a cattle market, as the nearness of Cow Green might suggest. The area was formerly occupied by textile warehouses before undergoing redevelopment between 1914 and 1932.
Hopwood Hall is a Georgian house at the junction of Hopwood Lane and King Cross Street built for William Hopwood around 1730. From 1768 to 1823, it was the home of the Alexander family. The building was bought by the Halifax Law Society in 1927. Hopwood Hall is a Grade II Listed Building. The following is from Calderdale Council's Listed Buildings descriptions:
Early C18. Good substantial stone house. 3 storeys. 5 windows. Rusticated ground storey with segmental pediment on brackets to entrance door. Eaves cornice to hipped stone roof. Rear has wide mullioned and transomed windows with leaded lights and rusticated arch to central recessed staircase window. Small cornice. Interior retains original and later C18 work including staircase with Chinese fret balustrade, slight ceiling decoration, plain joinery etc. Retaining wall and pair of elaborated piers flanking steps to forecourt with 2nd pier to west apparently earlier C19.
