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Kirklees, BRIGHOUSE, HD6 4HD

Kirklees Hall was the home of the Armytage family for centuries, but with extensions over the years it became a very large building and in recent years it was sold and converted into fifteen dwellings. On the left is the stable block, with the little turret, and to the right of it the oldest, Elizabethan, part.

This is one of a chain of ornamental ponds along the stream near to the home farm.

This 17C building is a rare survival, and is Grade 1 listed. It has three storeys and an attic, but the ceiling height is very low, as the object was to provide as large an area as possible for the processing of the grain and three floors were put into a building that would only have had two if it were a house. This has prevented the building from being converted to another use, and it is a credit to the Arymitage family that it has been preserved. The upper floors are made of lime-ash floor laid on rushes or lathes, and there is an orange Plimsoll line running round the building under the windows to indicate the maximum floor loadings.

On the Kirklees Hall Estate

An unusual location for this private school, in an old set of mill cottages more than a mile out of Brighouse. The building is listed grade II (list entry 1184470).

Part of a small former mill complex.

The blocked window with the arched top was the hole through which hay would be pitched from a wagon - hard work!

This is typical of the many 19C farmhouses that have a barn at the side, under the same roof.

This was built in the late 17C. It has lost its third storey, which had the pigeon holes, but still has the ledge around the lower part of the upper storey on which the birds would perch.