Woodsome Hall

Woodsome Hall is a 16th-century country house in the parish of Almondbury,[1] near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England.

[2] Built in the Elizabethan era as a hall house, Woodsome evolved in stages in the possession of several generations of the local Kaye family.

The Woodsome estate belonged in the 13th century to the de Nottons, after which it passed to the Tyas family, who lived there until 1370.

It was then granted to Sir William Finchenden, who was responsible for the finch motifs which adorn the building, before coming into the possession of the Kaye family, who occupied the property from 1378 to 1726.

His only daughter Elizabeth married George Legge, Viscount Lewisham, the heir of the 1st Earl of Dartmouth.