Kirkburton Hall, formerly known as Kirkburton Town Hall, and before that, as Springfield House, is a former municipal building in Penistone Road in Kirkburton, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Kirkburton Urban District Council and is now a private residence, is a grade II listed building.[1]
| Kirkburton Hall | |
|---|---|
 The building in 2008 | |
| Location | Penistone Road, Kirkburton |
| Coordinates | 53°36′51″N 1°42′48″W / 53.6143°N 1.7133°W |
| Built | c.1835 |
| Architectural style(s) | Neo-Georgian style |
Listed Building – Grade II | |
| Official name | Town Hall |
| Designated | 29 August 1978 |
| Reference no. | 1135339 |
  Shown in West Yorkshire | |
History
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The building, originally known as Springfield House, was commissioned by Wright Rhodes, a local woollen mill owner who had erected Springfield Mill on Peniston Road in about 1820.[2][3] The site that he selected for his house was just to the northwest of the mill but within its grounds.[4]
The house was designed in the Neo-Georgian style, built in ashlar stone and was completed around 1835.[1] Although Rhodes sold the mill to another woollen manufacturer, Hirst Hanson & Sons, in 1876,[5][6] the house remained in the Rhodes family until at least 1920.[7]
In 1935, the building was purchased by Kirkburton Urban District Council, which converted it for municipal use and re-opened it in 1938. The building, which became known as Kirkburton Town Hall,[8] remained the local seat of government until the enlarged Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council was formed in 1974.[9]
Kirklees Council sold the building for private use in 1982. Stained glass panels were removed from the building at that time and, in 2008, they were installed at All Hallows' Church.[10] The building was sold as a private house for £2 million in 2019,[11] and was extensively remodelled by Clay Construction to a design by Sheffield architects, 2131, in summer 2020.[12][13]
Architecture
editThe two-storey building is built of stone, with a slate roof, and a small lantern which was added at a later date. Its front is three bays wide, and it is four bays deep. The main front has a central door, with a portico, formed by fluted columns with Pentelic capitals, in the style of the Tower of the Winds, supporting a dentiled entablature. The outer bays on the ground floor and all three bays on the first floor are fenestrated with sash windows.[1] Inside, there is an elliptical entrance lobby with a curved stone staircase. Original panelled doors and much plasterwork survives. The building was grade II listed in 1978,[1] and its former stables are also listed at grade II.[14]
See also
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edit- ^ a b c d Historic England. "Town Hall (1135339)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Historic England. "Springfield Mill (1300367)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ West Riding Election: The Poll for a Knight of the Shire for the West Riding of Yorkshire (PDF). Leeds: George Crosby. 1849. p. 164.
- ^ "Ordnance Survey Map". 1914. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ "A History of the Textile Industry in the Locality" (PDF). Skelmanthorpe and District U3A. 1 March 2018. p. 28. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Teasdale, Vivien (2004). Huddersfield Mills A Textile Heritage. Wharncliffe Books. ISBN 978-1903425770.
- ^ "Kirklees Archives Textile Collections Guide" (PDF). West Yorkshire Archive Service. p. 9. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ "Annual report 2008–2009" (PDF). KIrkburton Parish Council. p. 4. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Local Government Act 1972. 1972 c.70. The Stationery Office Ltd. 1997. ISBN 0-10-547072-4.
- ^ Davison, Emma (29 October 2008). "Window reused". Huddersfield Examiner. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Miller, Claire; Himelfield, Dave (9 February 2020). "The most expensive houses that sold in Huddersfield last year". Huddersfield Examiner.
- ^ "Kirkburton Hall, Huddersfield". 2131. Retrieved 1 January 2024.
- ^ "Kirkburton Hall". Clay Construction. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ Historic England. "Stable building 10 yards to east of town hall (1313345)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 2 January 2024.