Cliffe Castle (Museum)
CLIFFE CASTLE (MUSEUM), SKIPTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200609
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cliffe Castle (Museum)
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFFE CASTLE (MUSEUM), SKIPTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1200609
- Date first listed:
- 04-Dec-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cliffe Castle (Museum)
- Statutory Address 1:
- CLIFFE CASTLE (MUSEUM), SKIPTON 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- CLIFFE CASTLE (MUSEUM), SKIPTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Keighley
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 05774 42109
Details
KEIGHLEY SKIPTON ROAD SE 04 SE (east side) 5/252 Keighley
Cliffe Castle (Museum)
GV II
Large house, now museum. 1875-8, top storey removed 1950s. By George Smith of Bradford for a local manufacturer. Ashlar. High Victorian style. 2 storeys. Windows are mullioned and transomed or single-light and have sashes and quoined surrounds. Entrance front: 4-storey tower has in front of it a round-arched embattled porte cochere with off-set angle buttresses and corbelled parapet, the whole decorated with relief sculpture and tracery. Tower has decorated oriel windows to 2nd floor, and is flanked by 2-storey bay windows. To far left is conservatory with glass doors, bay window and parapet. Rear: to right tall, single-storey, gabled music room projects, with canted end containing 3-light Pointed-arch window with transoms and plate tracery under hoodmould with floreated terminals which continues as stringcourse. Above window is shaped pediment with traceried wheel-window under hoodmould. Coping. Dragon finial holding iron weather-vane. Returns of music room have embattled parapets and, to right return, lateral stacks. C20 gallery to left not of interest. Right return: 4 stepped bays with 2-storeyed bay windows. Formerly gabled, but top storey removed. Interior: porch has tesselleted floor, stained-glass windows and coffered ceiling with painting and plasterwork. Entrance hall has moulded and panelled arches. Ornamented staircase with iron and wood balusters, stained-glass window, painted wood ceiling with hammerbeams and Gothic ornament. Octagonal stairwell has upper gallery on octagonal piers, iron rail, and central lantern. Breakfast room and conservatory to left of porch, the latter with pointed-arch arcades and iron ties to glass roof. To right of porch is range of music-, drawing-, dining- and drawing-rooms which retain original decor with Adam -style motifs, painted ceilings, roundels, panelling and fireplaces. Music room to rear left has parapet floor, decorative frieze, corbelled beams and coffered ceiling. Drawings in the museum show that before the alterations of the 1950s there was a castellated tower to rear, a round, steepled tower, and a round tower with cupola (base remains). Of the Dutch gables to the top storey only one now remains.
Listing NGR: SE0577442109
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 338357
- 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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