The
Halifax Piece Hall is a building in the town centre of
Halifax,
West Yorkshire,
England, originally built as a sales centre for woollen
handloom weavers. It opened on 1 January 1779, with over 300 separate rooms arranged around a central courtyard. The term
piece refers to pieces of
cloth that were sold. As factories started up in the early nineteenth century the trade in handwoven wool declined and around 1815 the rules were changed to allow the sale of
cotton goods.