Burley House

BURLEY HOUSE, BRADFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1199636
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1949
List Entry Name:
Burley House
Statutory Address:
BURLEY HOUSE, BRADFORD ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
I
List Entry Number:
1199636
Date first listed:
18-Jul-1949
Date of most recent amendment:
20-May-1976
List Entry Name:
Burley House
Statutory Address 1:
BURLEY HOUSE, BRADFORD ROAD

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BURLEY HOUSE, BRADFORD ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:
Burley
National Grid Reference:
SE 17027 46105

Details

1. 5111 BRADFORD ROAD Burley in Wharfedale LS 29 7DZ -------------------- Burley House (formerly listed under General) SE 1746 8/21 18.7.49. I 2 Later C18. A small mansion now converted to a hotel. Free standing, with its outbuildings, and well set back from the road, here running south-east. 2 storeys. Ashlar-fronted. Hipped roof behind parapet (with urns on corners). Sash windows with glazing bars. String course below sills of lower windows and 2 string courses between storeys. Cornice. Main east front: symmetrical, with 5 windows, the centre 3 in slight projection beneath modillioned pediment (crowned with finial and enclosing oval window). Inset balustrading between string courses beneath upper windows. Central arched doorway (with fanlight) within aedicule. South front: 5 windows. Central 2-storey canted bay. North front has venetian window within arch, lighting staircase. Narrower 2-storey extension to west, left of south front. Interior: finely moulded decoration in style of Adam to doorcases, friezes etc. Opening to staircase framed by pair of columns. Elaborate decoration of fan etc to stair window; wooden balustrade, every 3rd baluster being spiral. Main room behind bay has richly decorated apses in canted sides of balancing inner end. Former fireplace of inlaid marble now removed.

Listing NGR: SE1702746105

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Legacy System number:
337589
Legacy System:
LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

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