Description

SE22SE WF3 BATLEY ROAD
SE283240 MORLEY (west side)

4/69 Haigh Hall (formerly
7.8.64 listed as Haigh Hall,
Spring Farm)

II

House, now farmhouse in 2 occupations. Mid C16 timber-frame encased in stone
c1768 (dated) and early C19. Punch-dressed stone with ashlar dressings, stone
slate roof. 2 storeys. Rusticated quoins, plinth, ground-floor band, lst-floor
band. 4-bay facade with 2 bays added to right of C19 stonework but with dated
doorway. Doorway in 2nd bay has Gibbs surround, pulvinated frieze and cornice.
Above, window with Gibbs surround (blocked) and apron . Ground-floor windows
have flat arches with raised keystones and projecting sills. lst-floor windows
have projecting sills and square heads. Shaped gutter brackets. 2 bays to right
have doorway with Gibbs surround and triple keystone inscribed "T 1768 W" over
which is cartouche with Savile coat of arms and carved face to apex of late C17
character and probably reused. Outer right-hand bay has window to each floor
with monolithic lintel and sill retaining 16-pane sashes. Hipped gable to left
with end stack; one other stack to ridge at junction with 2-bay addition. L-shaped
to rear with 2-bay wing under hipped roof. lst-bay has tall stairwindow with
impost blocks and keystone, 2nd-bay has windows with plain stone surrounds and
projecting sills. Later C19 or C20 brick kitchen extension and stack of no
interest.

Interior: 4-bay earlier timber-frame with posts on padstones and large king-post
trusses without struts with cambered tie-beams and straight braces to ridge,
one a closing truss with vertical struts. At right angles to this range C18
oak fish-bone king-post roof the purlins tenoned and pegged through the principal
rafters. Some C18 fireplaces with original surrounds and 6-panelled doors. One
cell has stop-chamfered spine-beam and bressumer with board-and-muntin wall with
above a portion of a close-studded wall with original clay infill.

Jeremiah Marsden, a Puritan Minister who seems to have preached in the parish
1660-62 is recorded as living at Haigh Hall (Booth, p8). In the early C18 it
was the home of the steward of George, 3rd Earl of Cardigan, one William Elmsall
who bought cloth from Yorkshire Clothiers for the Earl and his friends. The Earl
stayed here in 1730 (Booth, p13). The Savile coat of arms over the door is
explained by the connection between the Saviles, Lords of the Manor during the
C16 and C17, and the Cardigans through marriage. Other members of the Elmsall
family were incumbents of East Ardsley - Henry Elmsall 1716-1758 and his son
Henry 1772-1797, who may have lived here also as the living in the C18 was held
in plurality with St. Mary's Woodkirk (q.v.) and this is at a mid point between
the 2 churches.

J. Booth, The Parish Church of St. Michael, East Ardsley, (booklet, 1963).

Listing NGR: SE2838524025

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26542903

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  For the Record
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas