Spring Hall

It was rebuilt in Gothic Revival style and completed in 1871 to a larger ground plan by architects James Mallinson and William Swinden Barber for Tom Holdsworth.

Although many of Barber's buildings are now listed, Spring Hall remains unlisted, although it retains its 17th-century cellars and many original 1871 features including the painted and galleried Arts and Crafts grand staircase.

[4] The original plans by Mallinson and Barber of the rebuild, dated April 1870, still exist at West Yorkshire Archive Service.

[10] They extended the ground plan and constructed the present Gothic Revival and Arts and Crafts mansion which was completed in 1871.

[11][12] The work involved an application in February 1871 from the architects to alter the fence wall between the Spring Hall estate and the Huddersfield turnpike road.

Spring Hall is a large, three-storey, cellared building which was originally set in its own grounds.

The west side, which faces the drive and the Huddersfield Road, has two non-functioning gargoyles representing a dog and fox on the outer corners of the central bay of the first floor.

[16] Above the south-east entrance porch is the Holdsworth family crest carved in stone: a lion rampant, holding an opened scroll.

[25] The plaster corbels on the ground floor staircase ceiling are carved with lions, in connection with the Holdsworth family crest.

[27] The other one in the music room is a large and decoratively carved oak affair, with matching doorways either side.

[28] The doors and fireplace contain half-columns and pediments in a semi-neoclassical style, with a carved frieze of fruit and leaves, and the helmeted head of St Cecilia, patroness of musicians.

[29] The hearth contains a hand-made Arts and Crafts cast iron hood and moulded, coloured ceramic tiles on the surround.

[28][30] On the ground floor, a decorative plaster ceiling with layered and coloured cornice survives in the wedding room of the register office.

[35] In 1847–1848 there was a case in the County Court disputing the will of merchant Joseph Bates the elder, a former resident of Spring Hall.

The company has been based at Shaw Lodge Mills since 1822, and currently makes fabrics for seating on public transport.

[1][5] With his three brothers he was a partner in the family business, but retired to Spring Hall in 1874 due to ill health.

[42] Tom died suddenly aged 56 on Sunday 1 May 1881, at the Great Northern Hotel near London King's Cross railway station.

Calderdale Register Office, whose address had been in Carlton Street, Halifax, since 1878, was removed to Spring Hall in April 2009.

[11][19] In 2014 Ravenscliffe High School was awarded a grant of £113,882 by Sport England Inspired Facilities fund to build a sixth form and community centre in the former grounds of Spring Hall.

Galleried grand staircase
Music room
Shaw Lodge Mills
Hall with 1973 sports pavilion
First floor ceiling corbel on grand staircase, showing stencilled and gilded wooden ceiling