Description

SE2918
9/4
15.2.66

HORBURY
CHURCH STREET
(south side)
Horbury Hall (formerly listed as Nos 13, 15 and 17)

GV
I

Hall house. Timber frame of between 1478 (dendro date) and 1492 (documentary
evidence). Built for the Amyas family. The hall was floored and a central
stack inserted c.1700. Encased C18 and later in several stages. (Undergoing
restoration at time of survey, 1987). Clad mainly in brick, part rendered,
the front wall partly in deeply coursed stone. Stone slate roof. Two
storeys. Two-bay open Hall, one-bay solar with chamber beneath. The 3-bay
front has 2 entrances and C19 and C20 windows not of special interest.
Rendered ridge stack between bays 1 and 2.
Interior: open hall of 2 bays now floored and divided by the inserted brick
stack, and a solar bay to the right (west) which has the original floor with
provision for a semicircular stair to the rear right. King-post trusses on
posts (front post to truss No. 2 is missing). Two intermediate open, moulded
and arched-braced collared trusses in the hall. Two-purlin roof with
exceptionally fine and rare cusped windbracing. An additional tie-beam to
the left of truss 3 formerly supported the top of a coved dias canopy and,
along with the tie-beam to truss 2, is brattished and decoratively carved
with roses and shields bearing the Amyas coat-of-arms. The rear post to
truss 2 (south side) is also richly moulded. Studding extant in trusses 3
and 4 at lst-floor level but it is thought that the right wall (truss 4) and
the rear wall were originally of stone at lower level. C18 plaster ceiling
cornice and corner cupboard in ground-floor left room. The house terminates
at the left end with a spere-truss; formerly there was a cross-passage and a
further wing to the left (east) which were demolished in 1938.
The structure represents a very complete survival of a C15 gentry house, the
spere-truss and cusped windbracing being the only examples yet identified in
Yorkshire.
D. J. H. Michelmore and J. Sugden. 'Horbury Hall, West Yorkshire' 1980.
Archaeological Journal 137, p.403-6.
C. Giles. Rural Houses of West Yorkshire 1400-1830. 1986. RCHME.
K. Taylor. Wakefield District Heritage. 1975. Wakefield EAHY Committee.

Listing NGR: SE2953918335

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17528120

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)