Wesley House

Wesley House is a former Wesleyan Methodist preaching house, now a restaurant, located at No 9 Browgate in Baildon. It is attached to two cottages that have been converted into a workshop and office. Nos 9 and 11 were built in 1755, while No 13 dates from the early 19th century. The building is constructed of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof and has two storeys, forming a U-shaped block with No 13 on the left, which has two bays. The second bay features a doorway with tie-stone jambs, and all windows have plain stone surrounds, with 4-paned sashes on the first floor and a former shop window on the ground floor. There is a stack on the left gable.

No 11 is set back and has three bays. The first bay contains a doorway with monolithic jambs, while the third bay features a segmental-arched doorway with voussoirs and skew-backs, displaying the date and initials "JB". Between the bays is a window with plain stone surrounds, and above it are three 16-paned sashes, with a stack at the rear of this range. No 9 projects forward with a gable front and quoins. Its ground floor has a side shop window and a doorway with wooden surrounds of indeterminate date. The first floor boasts a tall semicircular-arched window with voussoirs and skew-backs, topped by a coped gable with kneelers and a stack at the rear. Attached to the left is a small 1½ storeyed gabled outshut, possibly originally containing a staircase.

Inside, the building features a 3-bay roof supported by two king-post trusses with deep cambered tie-beams, single angle struts, and stop-chamfered curved braces at the ridge. John Wesley is said to have preached from the first-floor window during his last visit to Baildon on July 22nd, 1786.