The House at the Maypole
The House at the Maypole – Number 9, Old Market,
Halifax – was a timber-framed building erected for a merchant near
the site of the maypole at the junction of Corn Market and Old
Market around 1400.
The initials S O were carved over the entrance.
The badge of Henry VII at the entrance suggests that it was
built between 1485 and 1509.
It was altered by James Bradley [1784].
Owners and tenants have included
- 1621: John Haldesworth
- 1641, 1673: John Niccoll
- 1641: Adam Wharton
- 1641: Henry Higgin
- 1641: Josias Mitchell
- 1641: William Bamford Jnr of Hoyland
- 1673: Ellen Dickenson
- 1673: Isabel Wharton
- 1673: Thomas Lister, gentleman and Anthony Foxcroft – Lister sold the property in
- 1673: Thomas Mitchell
- 1673: Anthony Foxcroft Snr, JP of Woodhouse, Skircoat and Thomas Lister – sold to his son Anthony Foxcroft Jnr
- 1699: Joshua Dunn, mercer of Halifax –
- 16??: John Dixon, butcher of Halifax stepson of John Haldesworth – sold
- 16??: John Lister, mercer and linen draper of Halifax, devised to his 4 daughters
- 16??: Ralph Asheton of Kirkby and Thomas Richardson
- 16??: Timothy Hainsworth, shalloon maker of Halifax
- 16??: William Bamford Snr, passed to his son
- 1709: Joshua Turner
- 1709: Thomas Wakefield
- 1709: William Wood
- 1709: Thomas Mellin
- 1724: Daniel Clark, gentleman of Attercliffe, devised to his brother, Rev Samuel Clark
- 1740: Susannah Mercer and Elizabeth Mercer, spinsters, linen drapers
- 1748: Benjamin Schofield
- 1749, 1773: Betty Mercer and Penelope Mercer, spinsters, linen drapers – sold
- 1762: Joseph Clark, woolstapler, St Albans and Rev Nicholas Warren – sold
- 1762: Rev Nicholas Warren and Clark Joseph, woolstapler, St Albans – sold
- 1779: John Lister, mercer and linen draper
- 1779: Penelope Mercer, linen draper
- 17??: Elizabeth Bagshaw, wife of William Bagshaw of Hinckley, gentleman, later wife of Daniel Clark
- 17??: Rev Samuel Clark of St Albans, his brother Daniel and sister Sarah. It was devised to Joseph Clark
- 1804-1837: James Thomas Berry
- 1805, 1822: Miss Calvert
- 1805: Paul Hey
- 1842: James Lofthouse
- 1847, 1881: William Dyer
- 1905: Gibson Dixon
- 1936: Boots Cash Chemists Limited
- 1936: William Dyer
The Turk's Head, Halifax stood next door in Old Market.
In 1890, it was bought by John Lister for £15, taken down and
removed to Shibden Park along with Cripplegate House.
The House and part of the Turk's Head Inn were known as Daisy
Bank when re-erected on Leeds Road adjacent to Shibden
Park.
This is discussed in the books
the collection of Prints by J. R. Smith,
Views of Ancient Buildings in the Parish of Halifax and
Yorkshire Coiners.
This is discussed in a section of Ling Roth's book Yorkshire
Coiners.
©
Malcolm Bull
2023
Revised 17:30 / 10th March 2023 / 7913
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