Lower Hall Norland (Document ID: 102280)
Lower Hall Norland
Author: H.P.Kendall
Date: not dated
Location: Norland
Format: Photograph - Mono
Document ID: 102280
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Built in 1634 for Gearge 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. Much modernised inside in the mid-1900s.
Norland Lower Old Hall is still standing [2003] and is a Grade II* Listed Building. The following extract is from Calderdale Council's Listed Building description:
Interior: central house body: the main feature is the Tudor-arched moulded ashlar fireplace with Carolean baluster-like motifs under stylised heads to jambs, heavily-moulded cornice, frieze reading 'FEARE GOD HON- OUR THE KINGE', moulded cornice and elaborate plaster overmantel with royal arms and wording 'DIEU ET MON DROIT 1635 T G E' flanked by caryatids under grotesque heads, cherubs and the arms of the Bishops of Canterbury and Earls of Derby.
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
