PLANS for a blue plaque to mark the heritage of Red House in Gomersal, which has links to the Brontes, have been passed.

The Grade II* listed building was run as a museum from the 1970s due to its association with the Taylor family and Charlotte Bronte.

But the museum was closed down in 2016 due to budget cuts and is currently empty.

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Spen Valley Civic Society applied for listed building consent to honour Mary Taylor, a radical feminist and friend of Charlotte Bronte.

In its application, the Civic Society details how Mary was born at Red House in 1817 into a family of prosperous textile merchants. She was educated at Roe Head School in Mirfield where she met Charlotte Bronte.

That application has now been approved, meaning the blue plaque can now be made and installed on the 1660s building.

The plaque itself would be fixed into mortar, with no drilling into any brickwork required.

A heritage statement states: “Mary deserves to be honoured because aside from her friendship with Charlotte Brontë, she was a trailblazer and radical feminist. She refused to accept the constraints of 19th-century middle-class females."

The Civic Society add that while Mary Taylor is significant nationally, she is not celebrated locally.

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