High Sunderland Hall

High Sunderland Hall

High Sunderland Hall was a manor house, built circa 1600 just outside Halifax, West Yorkshire and demolished in 1951 after falling into dereliction [http://www.halifaxcourier.co.uk/CustomPages/CustomPage.aspx?PageID=54122&sectionID=10317 Halifax Today article on Local Sites with Bronte associations] ] . The house is perhaps most notable for being said to have provided Emily Brontë with her description for Wuthering Heights [ [http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/locations/wutheringheights.htm#inspirations A Reader's Guide to Wuthering Heights] ] , although this is a matter for some debate [ [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/bst/2006/00000031/00000001/art00006 IngentaConnect Article about Everard Flintoff's book, The Geography of Wuthering Heights] ] ; the building stood just a few miles from Law Hill House, Southowram, where she spent some time as a school mistress.

The building was noted for its elaborate and grotesque carvings and her description of Heathcliff's wild moorland home has unmistakable echoes of the old house. Emily Brontë wrote: cquote|"Before passing the threshold I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving lavished over the front and especially about the principal door, above which, among the wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date 1500 ..."|

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