Oakwell Hall, Porch and East Gable from Garden

Slide 9. Oakwell Hall is the place described in Charlotte Bronte’s “Shirley” as “Fieldhead”. It tallies exactly with the real Oakwell. There are some beautiful touches in the pictures of Fieldhead which are offered us. We find:- “If Fieldhead had few other merits as a building it might at least be termed picturesque, its irregular architecture and the grey and mossy colouring communicated by time, gave it a just claim to this epithet. The old latticed windows, the stone porch, the walls, the roof, the chimney stacks, were rich in crayon touches and sepia lights and shades and trees behind were bold and spreading.”