East Riddlesden Hall

East Riddlesden Hall is a house dating back to 1640, originally commissioned for James Murgatroyd of Warley. It incorporates an earlier range and a later addition from 1692. Constructed of ashlar with stone slate roofs, the north front is composed of three distinct portions. The left portion, built in 1640, has a through passage and two storeys with an attic, featuring three gabled bays with a two-storey porch in the centre bay. To the left is a single-storey, one-bay section from an earlier 17th century phase. The right portion represents only the front wall of the 1692 addition, also two storeys with an attic, and three gabled bays, with a projecting two-storey entrance wing on its right side. The 1640 section displays a wave-moulded plinth and double-chamfered mullion windows. Bay 1 has cross-windows to the first floor and single-light windows above, along with dripmoulds. A 12-light mullion-and-transom window is present in Bay 2, with six-lights above that feature stepped and transomed design and lead cames; dripmoulds and a crocketed finial top it off. The porch in Bay 3 features a round-arched doorway with a moulded surround, flanked by fluted Corinthian columns on plinth blocks, supporting an entablature with a moulded cornice. A wheel window sits above the doorway, also with lead cames and a hoodmould with floral terminals. It is finished with an embattled parapet with crocketed finials. Stacks with diamond-set flues are found on the ridge and right gable. The central portion displays double-chamfered cross-windows with lead cames, and a doorway with tie-stones to the right. The right portion has a chamfered plinth and double-chamfered mullion windows. Ground floor windows are now, generally, of two and three lights (originally five), while the first floor features cross-windows with architraves and pediments. Each gable has an oval window within an architrave, finished with ashlar coping and ball finials. The projecting entrance wing features shaped kneelers, two-light windows, and a Tudor-arched doorway. The rear (south) front shows a 1640 portion on the right, similar to the front, with a wheel window and embattled parapet to the left. A different bay includes a six-light window to the ground and first floors, and a three-light window to the attic, with a decorative dripmould. A later plain-stone surround doorway is present on the right. A single-storey block has one nine-light mullioned-and-transomed window. The east front has three bays, the central one narrower, featuring double-chamfered mullion windows with dripmoulds and crocketed finials on all floors. The interior contains stone fireplaces, stone floors, studded oak doors, oak panelling, oak floors, decorative plaster ceilings, and one fireplace dated 1648 with a Jacobean overmantel. The building's details have been further explored in publications by Christopher Hussey and L. Ambler.