Norland Old Hall
Norland Old Hall London Road
Author: Hugh Percy Kendall
Date: 1937
Location: Norland
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 102275
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Norland Hall was on London Road and occupied a prominent site on the hill overlooking Sterne Bridge. It was a stone house, showing a date of 1672, which encased an older timber-framed building from around 1450.
In the summer of 1912 lightning struck the roof and the building fell into disrepair. It was sold in 1913 and contractors took down the greater portion of the original structure, together with part of the barn, with the intention of rebuilding in Addington Park, Croydon. The Great War interfered with the plans and the stones were stored in the barn, prior to resale to William Randolph Hearst, who shipped them to San Francisco in 1922 and 1923 with a view to reconstruction at San Simeon.
This reconstruction came to nothing and the stones were eventually used in construction of a Presbyterian Chapel, a Friendship Hall & an Educational building.
The photographer Hugh Percy Kendall, was a founder member of the Halifax Antiquarian Society in 1900 and a frequent contributor to their transactions. He was also a former president of the Halifax Photographic Society. He died in 1937 at the age of 62.
