Shipley Conservative Club

The Shipley Conservative Club is a hall house dating from the late 17th century, with a central section and right wing added in the early 18th century. It is constructed of coursed, squared rubble with ashlar quoins and dressings to the 18th-century parts, and has stone slate roofs. The building has a U-shaped plan.

The left wing is gabled and contains 19th-century ground-floor window openings beneath a continuous hoodmould, and two 3-light double-chamfered mullion windows to the first floor, all mullions now removed and under a continuous hoodmould. It has gable copings on moulded kneelers, and a broad central stack. The central section, of three bays, is of a classical design and was originally symmetrical. The central doorway, now partly blocked, has an eared and shouldered architrave with a cornice. The central first-floor window has a similar surround. Cross-windows with some early glazing are found on the first floor, and a ground-floor window to the right has been enlarged to form a doorway. The right wing is gabled, with rusticated quoins and two cross-windows to each floor, those to the first floor being blind. It features an oculus in the gable apex. A band runs between the floors and eaves, and there is an eaves cornice to the 18th-century portions. A balustrade above the central section has been recently removed.

At the rear of the left wing is an early doorway with a cambered head above which is an escutcheon displaying a shield and supporters, though severely eroded. A round-arched staircase window is located at the rear of the central section. The right return elevation, the primary facade to the right wing, presents five bays with rusticated quoins and tall sash windows in architraves. A 20th-century ground-floor extension has been added. The central first-floor window has been converted into a doorway. A band between floors, eaves cornice, and a parapet all return from the gable front, but in the centre the parapet rises to form a circular false dormer.

The interior has been largely modernised. A contemporary dog-leg staircase is found in the central section, featuring a moulded and ramped handrail and a moulded, pulvinated string. Square, panelled newels are present; the balusters are not visible. Original panelling from a first-floor room at the rear of the central part has deeply moulded fielded panels in two tiers, with a taller upper tier. In that room, there is a contemporary fireplace, partly obscured, with a panel above. An original fireplace (altered) survives at the rear of the 17th-century wing. Some early panelled doors remain.