Duke Of York Hotel

The Duke of York Hotel, now a public house, dates to 1888 and is situated on a corner site at the junction of Colne Road and Briercliffe Road in Burnley. It is constructed of coursed sandstone rubble with freestone dressings, topped with a Cumberland slate roof. The building is of Jacobean style and has a triangular design on the acutely angled corner plot.

The exterior is three and two storeys high, with six windows on the main range and three on the shorter side. A plinth, moulded sill band, and impost band mark the ground floor; a plain frieze runs above, and a moulded cornice tops the main range, with a plain parapet above. The fifth bay of the main range features a large doorway framed by coupled pilasters with moulded consoles and a dentilled cornice. Above the doorway is a sunk panel displaying the words "DUKE OF YORK," a cross-window with an enriched pilastered architrave and panelled crest inscribed "1888", and a sash window breaking the cornice. The second bay has a shallow three-light oriel window at first floor. Most windows are two-light sashes, with varied detailing: ground floor windows have shouldered lights and simplified cornices on consoles; first floor windows have stilted heads and moulded cornices; and second floor windows incorporate raised sills on moulded brackets. Ridge and gable chimneys are present. The two-storey portion has a large tripartite architrave to the ground floor windows, with pilasters and elongated consoles to the cornice. An oriel window with a moulded corbel is located at the first floor, flanked by single-light sashes. A two-storey canted bay on the south elevation features a clock face set within a carved surround in the upper half of the central first-floor window. The rear elevation, facing Briercliffe Road, is similar but simpler, with doorways and stair windows.

The interior has been altered. The building forms a notable feature of the streetscape and is visually linked with the nearby Church of St Andrew. Many of the sash windows retain intricate geometrical stained glass.