Charlotte would “sit alone in the parlour with just the sound of the clock ticking".

Photograph from  facebook/ Harry Hartley

For many years the Barracloughs were a very important and well-known family of clock-makers, and Emily Brontë even used the name Mosley Barraclough in Wuthering Heights.  John Barraclough (1773-1835) lived in this house and, when the lead weights in the upstairs window were replaced during renovation, his signature, found on the back of the wooden cover piece, can be seen in the downstairs bar along with the original front door key.

There is a John Barraclough clock in the Parsonage belonging to Patrick Brontë and Ellen Nussey, Charlotte’s great friend, wrote how, after the death of her siblings, Charlotte would “sit alone in the parlour with just the sound of the clock ticking.”

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