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Latitude: 53.8312 / 53°49'52"N
Longitude: -1.9573 / 1°57'26"W
OS Eastings: 402909
OS Northings: 437214
OS Grid: SE029372
Mapcode National: GBR GSS4.1C
Mapcode Global: WHB7V.XY4T
Plus Code: 9C5WR2JV+F3
Entry Name: Haworth Parsonage (Bronte Museum)
Listing Date: 23 February 1955
Grade: I
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1313933
English Heritage Legacy ID: 338119
ID on this website: 101313933
Location: Haworth, Bradford, West Yorkshire, BD22
County: Bradford
Civil Parish: Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury
Built-Up Area: Haworth
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Haworth St Michael and All Angels
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Historic house museum Independent museum
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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
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.
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