History Of Norland Hall

Norland, Halifax, West Yorkshire
London Road.
Aka Norland Old Hall.
A timber-framed house built at Norland around 1450.
A passage doorway was dated ITHT 1672 for Joseph Taylor who cased the house in stone around that time.
Owners and tenants have included
John Waterhouse [1571]
Thomas Whitacarres [1598]
the Taylor family [1650]
Joseph Taylor [1672, 1682]
John Taylor [1600s]
Elizabeth and James Wainhouse [1845]
Francis Berry [1851]
James Briggs [1851]
Henry Stark [1891, 1901]
George Henry Butterfield [1901]
John Smith [1901]
Thomas Easterby [1901]
After being struck by lightning in April 1911, the hall fell into disrepair.
In 1914, the building was dismantled. There was a plan to rebuild it in Addington Park, Croydon. This came to naught.
On 12th August 1922, it was announced that the Hall was to be demolished and transferred to America. It was sold to William Randolph Hearst, the American newspaper tycoon and shipped to the USA in 812 crates for re-erection on his California estate. On 8th September 1922, the first consignment was shipped to America.
The plan collapsed when Hearst learned that he had to pay import tax on the stone, and the cargo rotted on the dockside for many years and eventually some of the stones were used to build a Presbyterian chapel in San Simeon, California [1967].
The present Norland Hall building is the result of restoration in the 1960s.

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Do the Howroyde in Barkisland please!

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A shame it was lost - rather like Elland Hall, but in that case, it was quite literally.