Otley Liberal Club

Otley Liberal Club is a Liberal club building, now vacant, built between 1879 and 1881. It was designed by Alfred Marshall for the Otley Liberal Club. The building is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and has steep Welsh slate roofs with ornate terracotta ridge pieces. It is two storeys high.

The front on Wesley Street presents a symmetrical facade. The slightly projecting central doorway features a double-chamfered pointed arch with a stepped hood inscribed "1880". The doorway has a four-panel door with an overlight containing gothic tracery. Above the doorway is a canted oriel window with three cross casements and a steeply pitched roof. Flanking the oriel window are pairs of casement windows on each floor, set in deeply chamfered surrounds. An ashlar band decorated with carved quatrefoils runs across the facade, surmounted by a plain ashlar parapet. Each corner has a canted corner balcony with a stone parapet and a single set of French doors.

The front on Courthouse Street has five windows. The central doorway has a double-chamfered ashlar surround with a pointed arch and a stepped hood, inscribed "OTLEY LIBERAL CLUB", and features a six-panel door and a Gothic fanlight. To the left of the doorway are two pairs of casement windows in deeply chamfered surrounds, and to the right are two single similar windows. Above, a band is decorated with shields, and a central window is flanked to the left by a pair and a single casement window, and to the right by two further casement windows in chamfered surrounds. This upper section is topped with a deep band and has an attic with three small windows and a separate steep slate roof.

The rear of the building has a curved staircase tower with three lancet windows on each floor.

The interior includes a hall with a Minton tile floor, a screen with coloured glass panels, and a deeply moulded plaster archway. The oval-plan staircase has stone treads, cast iron balusters, a wooden handrail, an elaborate octagonal newel post, and an oval roof light. The main rooms feature deeply moulded plaster coving and original panelled doors with moulded wooden surrounds.