Magson House, Luddendenfoot

The existing house was completed in 1851 by John Appleyard and still includes parts of the original house.

Subsequent owners and tenants have included

• William Appleyard [1851]
• James Appleyard [1871]
• John Wormald [1871]
• Thomas Farrar [1871]
• William Murgatroyd [1881]
• John Appleyard [1900]
• James Appleyard [1903]
• Dr John Appleyard [1908]
• Dr William Appleyard [1908]
• Henry C. Tolson [1890]
• Edward Wormald [19??]
• Joseph W. Whitworth Limited [1920]
• Robert Baldwin Whitworth
• William G. R. Norris [19??]

In Rev John Watson's, History & Antiquities of the Parish of Halifax in Yorkshire, published in 1775, he records inscriptions

Further Notes by Dave Stollery, current [2022] resident of the property:

• When excavating part of the garden, we unearthed one of the original roof stones from the house with the inscription on it. I've not found any evidence of the uncommon hollow mentioned in the Watson extract and I suspect that it was filled in back in the 1700s

• If you look at the house on Google Satellite view you can see that the larger Victorian part of the house has the smaller, much older, part of the house as an extension at its North-East corner

• All of the internal doors in the house have locks on them and the keys have tags on them showing they were the property of Sagar Richards. As I understand it, this is because they bought the house to use it as offices after the damage that was done to their own office down the road in 1973. It is possible that they bought it from Joseph Whitworth Limited who may have been using it as offices, though I have no evidence of this