Decay
By 1913, when Arthur Comfort sketched the Hall, it was almost entirely unoccupied and in an advanced state of dilapidation with many broken windows and the interior in disarray.
During World War II, the Hall's windows were shattered by a bomb dropped nearby by a German bomber.
By the late 1960s and early 1970s, the only part of the Hall which remained standing was the façade onto the yard and the rooms immediately behind it, together with the attached single-storey kitchen. These remnants were demolished in the late 1970s.
An oil painting of the kitchen's interior was on display in the Smith Art Gallery in Brighouse during the 1970s. This painting showed one of the kitchen's unusual features which was a carved stone column which supported one of the roof joists. The kitchen ceiling was open to the slates. Water was supplied to a stone trough in the kitchen floor from a spring, which almost caused the death of one of the children then living at the hall.
Today, the site of the former Hall is part of Walterclough Hall Farm of Walterclough Lane, Halifax.
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