EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL

EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL, BRADFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1283478
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL
Statutory Address:: EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL, BRADFORD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1283478
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL, BRADFORD ROAD

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: EAST RIDDLESDEN HALL, BRADFORD 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 07893 42064

Details

KEIGHLEY BRADFORD ROAD SE 04 SE (south side, off)

5/13 Riddlesden 23.2.55 East Riddlesden Hall

GV I

House. 1640 for James Murgatroyd of Warley with earlier range and addition of 1692. Ashlar, stone slate roofs. North (main) front: left portion has through passage, 2 storeys with attic, 3 gabled bays with 2-storey porch to bay 3. Central, earlier C17 single-storey, one-bay portion. Right portion is front wall only of 1692 addition, 2 storeys with attic, 3 gabled bays, with 2-storey project- ing entrance wing on right. Left portion: wave moulded plinth. Double-chamfered mullion windows. Bay 1 has 2 cross-windows to 1st floor, 2 single-light windows above, dripmoulds and corniced gable stack. Bay 2 has a 12-light mullion-and- transom window with king mullions to ground and 1st floors, 6-light window above with 4 central lights stepped and transomed and lead cames retained, dripmoulds, crocketed finial. Bay 3: porch has round-arched doorway with moulded surround voussoirs laid to course, imposts and is flanked by fluted Corinthian columns on plinth blocks supporting entablature with moulded cornice. Above door is wheel- window with lead carnes and hoodmould with floral terminals. Embattled parapet with crocketed finials. Stacks to ridge and right gable, all with diamond-set flues. Central portion: 2 double-chamfered cross-windows with lead cames; plain stone surround doorway with tie-stones to right. Right portion: chamfered plinth. Double-chamfered mullion windows, on ground floor now of 2 and 3 (originally 5) lights, on 1st floor cross-windows with architraves and pediments. Each gable has an oval window in architrave, ashlar coping and ball finials. Projecting entrance wing has shaped kneelers, 2-light windows and Tudor-arched doorway in right return. Rear (south front): 1640 portion on right similar to front, with similar doorway, wheel window and embattled parapet on left. Right bay different in having a 6-light window to ground and 1st floors and 3-light window to attic. Later plain-stone surround doorway on right. Ground-and lst-floor dripmould has decorative terminals. Single-storey block has one 9-light mullioned-and-transomed window. Left return (east front): 3 bays, central bay narrower. Double-chamfered mullion windows to all floors, dripmoulds, crocketed finials. Interior: stone fireplaces and floors, studded oak doors, oak panelling and floors, good plaster ceilings and one fireplace dated 1648 with Jacobean overmantel.

For further details see C Hussey, 'East Riddlesden Hall, Yorkshire', Country Life, vol 158, 1943, pp.440-443 and L Ambler, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire 1913, p.79, plates 17, 26, 93, 94, 95, 96.

Listing NGR: SE0789342064

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Legacy System number:: 338099
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913), 79
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 158, (1943), 440-443

Legal

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