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Latitude: 53.8301 / 53°49'48"N
Longitude: -2.0155 / 2°0'55"W
OS Eastings: 399074
OS Northings: 437095
OS Grid: SD990370
Mapcode National: GBR GSC4.FR
Mapcode Global: WHB7V.0ZHN
Plus Code: 9C5VRXJM+2Q
Entry Name: Ponden Hall
Listing Date: 23 February 1955
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313937
English Heritage Legacy ID: 338342
ID on this website: 101313937
Location: Scar Top, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD22
County: Bradford
Civil Parish: Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Haworth St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House
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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
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