Description

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SE 0237 and SE 0337
21/31

KEIGHLEY
Haworth
CHURCH STREET (south side)
Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)

23.2.55

GV
I

Parsonage, now museum. 1779, altered and extended 1872, restored later. Coursed dressed millstone grit. Stone slate roof. Two storeys, five bays with cross wing of 1872 to right. Left-hand portion: sashes in slightly projecting stone architraves with moulded cills. Central, panelled, part-glazed door with knocker in pedimented Tuscan doorcase with pilasters, frieze and cornice, flanked by two windows to each side. Five windows above. Continuous lintel band to first floor. Dentilled eaves. End stacks. Cross wing has windows in slightly projecting stone architraves with moulded cills, that to ground floor of three lights with cill on consoles, that to first floor of two sashed lights. Iron finial. Interior: stone stairs and round-headed staircase arch; original doors; flagstone floors; simple iron fireplaces; window shutters, iron range and moulded ceiling beams in kitchen. Occupied by the Bronte family from 1820 onwards. Most of the novels were written here.

This listing was enhanced in 2016 to mark the bicentenary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth.

Listing NGR: SE0290937214

History

From 1820 onwards, Haworth Parsonage was home to Patrick Bronte (1777-1861) and his three literary daughters: Charlotte (1816-55), Emily (1818-48), and Anne (1820-49). It was in this house that, as children and young adults, the Bronte sisters, with their brother Branwell (1817-48) wrote stories and poetry for their own amusement. It was here that most of the sisters’ novels were written: Emily’s Wuthering Heights (1847); Anne’s Agnes Grey (1847) and Tennant of Wildfell Hall (1848); and Charlotte’s Jane Eyre (1847), Shirley (1848) and Villette (1853). It was also at Haworth Parsonage that Charlotte died on 31 March 1855.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Brontë Parsonage Museum at Wikipedia
• Brontë Parsonage Museum official website
• Wikidata Q2926101

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Recommended Books

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  Hampshire: South (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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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings