West Riddlesden Hall is a Grade I listed building in the Bradford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1955. A Post Medieval House.
West Riddlesden Hall
- WRENN ID
- tall-sandstone-martin
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Bradford
- Constituency
- Keighley and Ilkley MP: Robbie Moore (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1955
- Type
- House
- Period
- Post Medieval
- Address
- West Riddlesden Hall, Scott Lane, Keighley
- OS grid reference
- SE 072 426
- Coordinates
- 53.88037, -1.8909
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
West Riddlesden Hall is a historic house dated 'TL 1687' with 19th-century alterations and additions, built for Thomas Leach. The structure is made of coursed dressed stone and features a stone slate roof. It has two storeys with an attic and a south front that consists of three gabled bays. The building has a chamfered plinth and a central doorway with a torus-moulded architrave on plinth blocks. To the left and right of the doorway, there are large 8-light double-chamfered mullioned and transomed windows, with a cross-window above the door. A moulded band runs over the windows, with terminals dropped on either side of the ground-floor windows. Each gable has an oculus with a hollow-moulded surround and lead cames, and the gables are topped with cyma-reversa ashlar coping and ball finials. A corniced ridge stack is also present.
The entrance front, facing west, has four bays and features a chamfered plinth. The double-chamfered mullion windows include a 2-light window with a hoodmould in the first bay, which may be from the 19th century. The second bay has a 19th-century, two-storey, flat-roofed porch with a chamfered plinth, a studded double-door in a moulded ogee-headed surround, and a hoodmoulded, string, traceried round window above. The third bay contains an 8-light window with a king mullion and glazing bars, along with a string course and 4-light windows above. The fourth bay is gabled and features a 19th-century two-storey canted bay in the style of the porch, with 2-light windows on the ground floor that include transoms, strings, and a parapet. The gable has shaped kneelers, moulded ashlar coping, ball finials, and corniced stacks, with additional stacks along the ridge. The north and east fronts also have good double-chamfered windows, some retaining lead cames.
Inside, the hall is oak-panelled and features a dated beam and an open-string staircase with turned balusters.
Local climate
West Riddlesden Hall sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 27 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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