Red House, Cleckheaton
Description: Red House
Grade: II
Date Listed: 12 January 1967
English Heritage Building ID: 341056
OS Grid Reference: SE2078526259
OS Grid Coordinates: 420785, 426259
Latitude/Longitude: 53.7323, -1.6864
Location: Oxford Road, Dewsbury, Kirklees BD19 4JP
Locality: Cleckheaton
Local Authority: Kirklees
County: West Yorkshire
Country: England
Postcode: BD19 4JP
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Listing Text
SE 22 NW SPENBOROUGH MB OXFORD ROAD (west side)
GOMERSAL
2/149
Red House
12/1/67
II
Former house, now museum. Thought to date from c.1660 though pre-
dominantly c.1740 with c.1922 and recent alterations. Built for
William Taylor. Red brick with stone quoins. Double pile stone
slate roof with 4 gables to rear with chamfered gable copings, hipped
roof to front. 5 brick stacks. Two storeys. Symmetrical 5-bay
facade of c.1740 with additional c.1922 addition slightly set back
to left. Fine central Georgian entrance with small flanking lights
and double semi-circular fanlight all with glazing bars. To left and
right are single sashes with glazing bars, and beyond these are canted
bays of c.1840. To 1st floor are three 2-light sashes and two single
sashes all with glazing bars.
Spacious entrance hall with gallery and stair with slender balusters.
Plasterwork is early C.20. The house was the home of the Taylor
family who were the Yorke family in Charlotte Bronte's 'Shirley'.
N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, 1979.
Listing NGR: SE2078526259
Source: English Heritage
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