Stansfield Hall () is a privately owned historic and Grade II* listed building, in

Stansfield Stansfield is a village and civil parish in the West Suffolk district of Suffolk in eastern England. Located seven miles south-west of Bury St Edmunds, in 2011 its population was 221. The village has an Anglican church dedicated to All Saints. ...

, Todmorden, West Yorkshire, England, which was once the residence of the Yorkshire MP Joshua Fielden and is now divided into private residential apartments.

History

Stansfield Hall was built in 1640 for James Stansfield, a descendant of the

Stansfeld Stansfeld is an English surname deriving from the Old English 'stan' (meaning stony) and 'feld' (field). This toponymic surname originates from the ancient township of Stansfield (near Todmorden, West Yorkshire), which was listed in the Domesday B ...

family of

and Sowerby, Yorkshire. The estate later passed to John Pilling who later sold it, in 1675, to Joshua Horton (d.1679) of Sowerby. The Horton family sold it in 1696 to William Sutcliffe in whose family it remained for over a century until it was purchased by the MP Joshua Fielden (1827–87) who commissioned the architect John Gibson to add a large Gothic Revival style extension to the existing building in 1862.

Architecture

The Hall's 17th century elements include a five-light chamfered mullioned window (lengthened with replaced mullions). The 1862 extension is an impressive range all with mullioned windows. Internally, there is a Tudor arched fireplace with Gothic decoration incorporating the initials J.F. and E.F.

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