The sketch and description were originally published in The Halifax Courier in 1912-1913. One of the beautiful halls of Ovenden Wood, overlooking Wheatley Valley from the Mount Tabor side. It derives its name from the Broadley or Brodeleghe family. There has evidently been a building here since 1362. Over the doorway of the porch appears ‘IGD, 1632’, but whose initials they are is not known. On the apex of the porch gable, cut in the plaster, is the date 1819, probably noting when improvements were made. There are traces in the field in front of an old coach way. A lovely carved oak fireplace from the lower room, on the right of the illustration, was purchased not very long ago by Mrs Robert Law of Hipperholme and re-erected in a Bristol home. The hall is now divided into six houses and belongs to the Titterington family. PH/28.Built about 1610, Upper Willow Hall (that delightful old-world building at Cote Hill) is undoubtedly the successor of a much older building. Although in Skircoat Manor, it is thought to have been of such importance once as to have been the centre of a smaller manor. A family of the name of King, or Kinge, were the original owners and over what was once the front entrance (now a window) is inscribed ‘James Kinge builded this’. Wainhouses, Listers, Akeds and Dysons were in turn owners. The Dysons were cloth merchants and much of their work was done in the adjoining out-buildings, now a laundry. One part of the old hall belongs to and is occupied by Mr Enoch Hill, JP. Inside there has been much modernising, probably when alterations were made to that part facing Sowerby Bridge. The part to be seen from Burnley Road is untouched. PH/28.
