High Sunderland Hall, nr Halifax

The front of the house showing the main doorway. High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built c.1600 just outside Halifax, and demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction.The house is perhaps best known for having supposedly provided Emily Brontë with her description of a house in her novel Wuthering Heights. The building stood just a few miles from Law Hill House, Southowram, where she spent some time as a school mistress.