Kirklees Hall, North Front

Slide 9 – We now approach the North side of the Hall. It retains the E shape characteristic of the later Elizabethan style, having a projecting wing at each end, and a porch in the centre. It formally possessed ample mullioned windows like those at Howsham Hall, but these were taken out, and plain sashes substituted in the eighteenth century. The North Front, which is an addition made to the original structure, was built about 1611 by a grandson of John Armytage, the first recorded owner of the Kirklees Estate.