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SD 9837 and SD 9937
19/237

KEIGHLEY
Scar Top
PONDEN LANE (north side)
Ponden Hall

23.2.55

GV
II*

Large house. 1634 with addition of 1801. For the Heatons. Coursed stone, stone slate roof. Two storeys. Older portion, on right: three windows to each floor, on ground floor double-chamfered with mullions and transoms of four, five and four lights, on first floor of three-lights, the left and central windows with flat-faced mullions. dripmould over ground floor. Coping to right. External stack with diagonal shaft to right, corniced ridge stock to left. 1801 addition, on left: one wide bay. To right, pedimented doorcase with Tuscan pilasters, frieze and cornice. To left, a two-light flat-faced mullion window and similar six-light window above. Over doorway is round-arched niche with keystone and imposts containing tablet inscribed "the Old House now standing was built by Robert Heaton for his son Michael A.D. 1634". The Old Porch and Peat House was built by his grandson Robert Heaton A.D. 1680. The present building was rebuilt by his descendent R.H. 1801'. Corniced ridge stack.

Interior: fluted panelling in former library, original fireplaces, panelled doors, ceiling beams.

The Heatons were a family important in the local wool-spinning an weaving industry. The date-plaque refers to the original house, the addition to it, and a farmstead built on the opposite side of the road which was demolished in 1956. Emily Bronte, a friend of the family, often visited the house and used the library, and it is thought that the house might be the model for Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering Heights.

M A Butterfield, The Heatons of Ponden Hall ..., (Bradford) 1976.

Listing NGR: SD9907437095

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Ponden Hall at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q7227685

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