Lower Hall Norland (Document ID: 102279)
Lower Hall Norland
Author: Unknown
Date: not dated
Location: Norland
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 102279
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Built in 1634 for George and Elizabeth Taylor, the house was split into three dwellings about 1900. The middle dwelling was used as the Norland village post office until the 1950s, hence the postbox in the exterior photo. Much modernised inside in the mid-1900s.
Norland Lower Old Hall is still standing [2003] and is a Grade II* Listed Building. The following is from Calderdale Council's Listed Building descriptionof the porch:
Porch: moulded Tudor-arched doorway with lintel dated '1634' GET (George and Elizabeth Taylor) and with 3 wool sacks; flanking columns have kinked fluting and bases with lozenges and support entablature; above, a moulded pedestal and 3-light window under dripmould flanked by gutter spouts; parapet gabled over window; on first floor of left return a trefoil light and of right return a chamfered light; inside, stone benches and moulded Tudor-arched inner doorway.
This photograph was amongst those taken in 1937 by local photographer and antiquarian Hugh Percy Kendall, as part of a series capturing old halls and homesteads from across the Parish of Halifax
