WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL

WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL, SCOTT LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1313939
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL
Statutory Address:: WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL, SCOTT LANE

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Date:: 2002-05-24
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1313939
Date first listed:: 23-Feb-1955
List Entry Name:: WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL
Statutory Address 1:: WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL, SCOTT LANE

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:: WEST RIDDLESDEN HALL, SCOTT LANE

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 07270 42690

Details

KEIGHLEY SCOTT LANE SE 04 SE (south side, off) 5/246 Riddlesden

23.2.55 West Riddlesden Hall

- I

House dated 'TL 1687' with C19 alterations and additions. For Thomas Leach. Coursed dressed stone, stone slate roof. 2 storeys with attic. South front: 3 gabled bays. Chamfered plinth. Central doorway with torus-moulded architrave on plinth blocks. Lead down-pipe with floral motif on left. To left and right on ground and 1st floors an 8-light double-chamfered mullioned and transomed window with cross-window over door. Moulded band over windows with terminals dropped either side of ground-floor windows. Each gable has an oculus with hollow-moulded surround and lead cames. Cyma-reversa ashlar coping. Ball finials. Corniced ridge stack. Wing to right, set back, has ground floor masked by later work, but a 3-light double-chamfered mullion window to 1st floor. Entrance (west) front: 4 bays. Chamfered plinth. Double-chamfered mullion windows. Bay 1: a 2-light window with hoodmould to each floor (possibly C19). Bay 2: C19, 2-storey, flat-roofed porch with chamfered plinth, studded double-door in moulded ogee-headed surround with hoodmoulded, string, traceried round window with hoodmoulded, string, parapet and ashlar coping. Bay 3: 8-light window with king mullion and glazing bars; string; 4-light windows above. Bay 4: gabled. C19 2-storey canted bay (in style of porch) with 2-light windows, those to ground floor with transoms, strings, parapet. Gable has shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping, ball finials, corniced stacks. Other stacks to ridge. Further good double-chamfered windows, some retaining lead cames, to north and east fronts. Interior: oak-panelled hall with dated beam and open-string staircase with turned balusters.

L Ambler, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, 1913, p90, plate 108.

Listing NGR: SE0727042690

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Legacy System number:: 338351
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Ambler, L, The Old Halls and Manor Houses of Yorkshire, (1913), 90

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