Back to Back Houses bradfordhistorical.org.uk
Slum Housing cottontimes.co.uk bbc.co.uk Westgate Slum Clearance thisisbradford.co.uk
Cellar Dwellings were widespread throughout the UK mernick.co.uk headlinehistory.co.uk
The Origins of Housing Policy thereadyfamily.com
Irish Immigrants movinghere.org.uk
Typical Back to Back, click on image to see more detail
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Most of the mill workers lived in dreadful
conditions, what had once been a a respectable place to live with
gardens and orchards, became over crowded and squalid, Westgate ,
otherwise known as the Pinfold. Many Irish immigrants arrived in
Keighley to find work in the mills, and the census shows us that many
people and families were crammed into one dwelling. Later, some mill
owners built houses for their workers, this was more of an attempt to
have the workers nearer the mill than anything else. These were mostly
back to backs, or through by light dwellings. Building work was halted
for a time due to a water shortage, but once the new reservoirs were
built, building continued.
The houses on North Dean Road, which at the time was named Lynum Street,
and West Lane, which is named Laycock Road on the 1800's map, were
built by the Briggs for their
workers, but the houses called the Gables, while being built by the
Briggs, can not have been intended for the workers, as the mill at that
time had been taken over by Joseph King.
The Cloughs built what is known
as the "Groves" Oak, Elm and Ash, Halifax Road.
A good example of cellar dwellings exists at the houses next to the
river on Woodhouse Road. These would have been luxurious by comparison
of the normal cellar dwelling, as these had daylight and opened up on to
a garden.
At the beginning the mill owners would build their own houses next to or
near their mill, later they would build their mansions away from the
noise and smoke.
While none of the Keighley mill owners created anything like Titus Salt
did in Shipley, most provided funds to the town for institutions,
churches and schools.
Acres house
Richard Edmondson 1913 Now used as a Counseling And Therapy center
by Relate.
Airewood,
Thwaites Brow.
Tom Clifton Butterfield. Headmaster Keighley School of Arts from 1889 to
1919
Aireworth House
1834 Samuel Blakey Clapham, Esq . 1881 Alice Laycock household 1913 Edmund Laycock From Keighley Past and Present: The
plain comfortable dwelling of Samuel B. Clapham, Esq., Worsted
Manufacturer, is too closely embosomed by the foliage of a tuft of trees
to be easily seen.
Atley House, Dalton Lane.
Walter Binns 1913
Balcony House, Oakworth Rd
Jeremiah Ickringill 1913. of
Eastwood Mill and Legrams Mill Bradford. Ickringill's Brass Band
(Keighley) Formed by James Ickringill, a Victorian businessman and
church founder - also created local Boys & Girls Brigades. Now an
animal feed shop.
 
Bankfield, Bingley
Built in 1848 for William Murgatroyd and later owned by Henry Mason who
enlarged it in 1871. The property is now a hotel. Click
here to see 1881 household
Beeches John Henry Craven 1913, who was a renowned
orchid grower, and on an old map the glass houses needed to grown them
can be seen. John died in 1935.
Beech Cliffe
Joseph Smith: Keighley Past and Present: Beech Cliffe, a plain,
commodious house to the north, the residence of Mr. Joseph Smith,
demands a cursory notice from the extensive views which it commands over
the valley of the Aire, while its situation near an angle of the
north-road, and just within the southern point of a crescent-formed
portion of ground which swells up in the rear to a considerable height,
agreeably shuts out of sight
Bracken
Bank House.
John Clough
We are informed in James's "History of Bradford," that "
Joseph Field, Esq. of Shipley, Lord of the manor of Heaton, bap. 1601,
married, 1625, Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir of William Rawson, of
Bracken Bank, in the parish of Keighley; by that lady, who outlived him
and died a widow, he had issue at his death in 1660. The last person of
this ancient family residing in the neighbourhood, was one Thomas Rawson,
who, stript of his property, like many a greater man in exigence, took
to the profession of a school-master. He was engaged in this vocation,
in the town, about 70 years ago. It is worthy of note that, from a
collateral branch of this family, have descended the present Countess of
Bosse and the Hon. Lady Delia Duncombe.
Bronte Parsonage, Haworth.
So that Haworth inhabitants could retain the services of it's own
minister they raised money to build a parsonage. The parsonage was built
around 1780. The barn set to the north of the parsonage was demolished
in 1903.
The Bronte family arrived in Haworth 1820, during their time there no
alterations were undertaken, only repairs and maintenance. In 1878 when
the Rev. John Wade was in residence, a gabled wing was added. bronte.org.uk
Incumbents Haworth Parish church genuki.org.uk
Broom House,
Spring Gardens Lane. Marriner Benj. 1837. Henry Kay
1913. Click
here to see 1881 household
Broomfield
House.
John Brigg lived here, he bought
Lower Broomfield house from Thomas Brigg Laycock, in 1882 he moved into Kildwick
Hall which he rented. Click
here to see 1881 household
Burlington
House, 29 North Street. (at the junction of Russell Street, which
used to be called Chapel Lane, and North Street, where the Nat West Bank
now stands) Click
here to see 1881 household.
Benjamin Septimus Brigg. 1876 - 1915
Cabbage House,
Longcroft.
 
John Greenwood had Cabbage Mill built on Cabbage Croft in 1793, one assumes
he also had a house built too. John lived at Cabbage House he also built Knoll
(Knowle) House for his son, he later moved to West
Riddlesden Hall In 1782 John Greenwood is
registered as having North Brook Mill. John
Greenwood was one of many that took rooms at Airworth
Mills. John Greenwood & Sons Greenwood also built Vale mill at
Oakworth.
We have found a reference in a book which says "John Greenwood lived at Damside at the
house which was to become the Royal Hotel". But there is no date,
as it is possible that the Royal that we know today, is not where it was
in the late 1700's then it is reasonable to assume that he probably
lived there when he first took on Brook Mill, then building Cabbage
House once he bought the land.
We find from an item in the Derby Mercury that John Butterfield is
living here 1845. William Mitchell won a prize of £8 at the Liverpool
Grand Poultry Show in 1854 and he is shown living here. William Mitchell
machine wool comber Cabbage Mills is also mentioned in the ALLEGED
EXTENSIVE EMBEZZLEMENT OF WOOL
The Leeds Mercury Wednesday, April 13, 1864
From gazettes-online.co.uk Bankruptcy act 1869 Hannah Whittaker of
Cabbage House Long Croft, Keighley Wife of John Whittaker of Hanwell
Lunatic Asylum, in the county of Middlesex, now living separate and
apart from her husband under a Protection Order of the
Justices of the Peace of the West Riding of the county of York, Keighley
Division, and carrying on the business of a Grocer at Keighley
aforesaid. ..... Dated this 21st day of December, 1880.
The entry in the 1881 census shows Cabbage House numbered 14 & 16!!!
At number 14 John Roper Wool comber with wife and two children and one savant
Sarah Foulds of London married age 29. Number 16 Christopher Holmes
widow, engine tender living with two daughters. John Roper is still
shown living here in 1891 there are now four children and one servant.
1861 the census just says "Cabbage" there are two families
living here William Mitchell worsted spinner with wife, five children
and one servant. John Metcalf engine tender, wife and three children. Was Cabbage house divided into two re census
1861 & 1881? 1861 census shows a group of houses called Greenwood
Place, there is no mention of Cabbage Place that I can find for that
year.
The Morning Chronicle , Wednesday, February 21, 1855 and we find
a notice saying that John Roper and William Mitchell Worsted spinners go
bankrupt.
The building which was the Horse and Jockey was clearly once a fine
building (above photos), the steps that run up to the upper floor do not
seem to be in keeping and feel it might be fair to assume that they were
added at a later date in order to make the building into two. The
building is on land connecting to North Brook Mill, we know that the
first North Brook Mill was only a small building around the size of four
small cottages, being enlarged by Hattersley when he took over.
The situation at the time of building would have offered very pleasant surroundings,
and I think it would be fair to make the assumption that has he owned
both bits of land this would be an ideal place to build his house. Slightly
away from both mills but near enough to keep his finger on the pulse. As
the area became more developed he has a man of some standing in the town
would wish to improve his lot. From an old aerial photo it is just
possible to make out a building that looks like it could be a dwelling
in the Cabbage Mill Yard, in comparison it is a plain building, but it
could have been built for the Cabbage mill manager who was his son. We
can see that the barn is much older and I think it would be fair to assume
that Greenwood would need somewhere to keep his horses, carriages and
fodder close to hand, from different entries in books and other sources
it is evident that Greenwood own more than one carriage,
a man of such standing at a minimum would have his carriage pulled by a
pair, if not a team of four.
Yet in the Gazatte re Hannah Whittaker the address is given Long Croft
and not Greengates.
Taken from The Leeds Mercury, Saturday,
May 23, 1885
Being sold by William Mitchell At the Devonshire hotel with other
property including weaving shed at North Beck....Cabbage new mill with
chimney engine and boiler house mechanics shop and stable and with
compound engine and boiler of 35 horse power the site covering 1060
square yards to the east of sun street was withdrawn at £4000.00
fourteen freehold cottages situated at cabbage fold with considerable
quantity of vacant land, the whole comprising about 7909 sq yards was
sold to Hezekiah Mitchell, Keighley for £1040. The old mason house
known as Cabbage House with cottages a joining Long Croft was
also offered for sale but there was no bid for it.
From the Keighley News 12/01/1962
Horse and Jockey Inn May once have been the home of mill owner THE
derelict three-storey Georgian building which is being demolished in
Greengate to make way for a foundry for Jonas Wells Ltd., brassfounders,
Keighley, may once have been the home of a prosperous mill owner, then a
public house of ill repute, an engineering works, and finally a storage
place. The building has mainly been noted as the Horse and Jockey Inn,
but there are apparently no photographs in existence of it when used as
a public-house, nor is there documentary proof that it was, in fact ever
an inn. Tradition has persisted that this building was, however, the
Horse and Jockey. When it was built and by whom is also a mystery, but
it may well have been the home of a mill owner. The area is
predominantly occupied by factories and owners of early cotton and wool
mills often lived on or near their works.
CABBAGE HOUSE?
For instance, Mr. John Greenwood erected a mill in Greengate it the
beginning of last century and built himself Cabbage House. This may
possibly be the house. An old map shows an open area in front of which
could have been a garden. In later years the area would lose its appeal
as a residential district and the house is then thought to have been
converted into a public house. Mr. Clifford Whone, the Keighley
historian, has been told it was a public-house about 1889, but extensive
research at Keighley Public Library has failed to find any mention of
the inn in old Directories listing such premises. That there was a Horse
and Jockey in Greengate is certain for the "Keighley News' in i809
reported a meeting of the Brewster Sessions when application for a
licence was heard.
LICENCE REFUSED
The report stated: "John Smith, of the Horse and Jockey,
Greengate, next came forward. Supt. Gill said it was a house similar in
character to those which licences had been refused. Sgt. Ellison said he
always found prostitutes there and the applicant himself cohabited with
one at the present time. He had cautioned the applicant. Smith said he
had never been cautioned and did not keep disorderly characters in his
house. Application refused." Mr. Whone understands that the Horse
and Jockey later became a lodging-house. He can remember going up the
outside steps, which were built on to the gable end, up to the top
storey about 1900 in an errand for his lather. At that time the top
storey was used by a small engineering firm. He is certain that the
building has not been occupied since about 1920.
Castle House.
Shown on the late 1800's map at Castle Hill, to the right of Becks lane.
Cain Croft, Spring Gardens Lane.
Cliffe (Hall)
Castle:
Built between 1828 and 1833 with 20 acres, built for local
lawyer Christopher Netherwood, In
1828 he purchased some cottages and land at 'lower Spring Gardens or
Cliffe'. before moving on to the
Fewston area and becoming bankrupt. It was designed by George
Webster of Kendal. then sold later to Henry
Isaac Butterfield a
textile mill owner, who bought the property and extended the grounds
from 20 to 300 acres. After a gas explosion in 1874 Henry rebuilt and
made additions to the house inside and out, he also changed the name to
Cliffe Castle. arch.wyjs.org.uk thisisbradford.co.uk Frederick William Louis Butterfield lived here in 1913
In 1927, sixteen acres of the estate were bought from Sir
Frank Butterfield for £8000. to build Greenhead School.
The Victorian mansion is now a museum. To see drawings of the house
when first built and the alterations to date see arch.wyjs.org.ukpdf
Click the following links to see the staff in 1881 Gardner living at the lodge. Housekeeper Coachman
and other staff Head
Gardner and other staff Servants
Croft House
Binns & Williamson Worsted Spinners and Manufacturers 1822.
1834 Mrs.
Ann Binns. 1851 Henry Rishworth.
Now Keighley Laboratories Ltd
Cononley Hall
First built 1450 and 1500, and is stated to have fallen into disrepair
about 1603. The property was rebuilt by the Swire family around 1603.
The Hall as we know it today was rebuilt about 1683 by the Swire family. Colin
Pickles
Currer Gate Steeton. Now nursing home. Initialled and dated "NDW 1912 EMW".
East Riddlesden Hall
users.actrix.co.nz Pug.org.au
Pdf
East Royd, Oakworth.
John Sugden.
Eastwood House- Victoria Park
John
Greenwood Sugden, son of William Sugden of Eastwood House and Fleece
Mill but gentleman-farmer by inclination, who in 1842 offered, as
"an inducement to the operative to save the money which he
otherwise might spend in the beerhouse", a prize for the best pig
bred by a workman in his employment. From this, the following year, grew
the first Keighley Agricultural Show.
Ebor House,
Haworth.
Hiram Craven 1829. Hiram Craven sold
to Edwin Merrall.
Fieldhead,
Home of the Marriners & John
Taylor (Lord Ingrow)
Gawthorpe Hall, Bingley
Joseph Heaton is listed as living here in 1822. Thomas Whitley is
listed as living here in White's Directory of 1837 arch.wyjs.org.uk There are tales of a haunting at the hall, a nun murdered by her lover,
the nun walks near the driveway of the hall, still in denial of the death at the hands of the man she loved
Greenbank,
Greenhead Lane.
Sir Robert Clough, owner of Clough's
Mill at Steeton.
Green Gables See Knowle
Spring House
Greengate House
Abraham Smith in the late 1700's. William and Ann Marriner are recorded as living here in 1808. Marriner Hy Alstone 1913. Lena
Kellerman was a servant here. Click
here to see the household in 1881
Guard House
House and attached barn, now Roman Catholic presbytery and church. Mrs.
Isabella Brigg . 1834
Haincliffe
House. stood at the top of the field opposite the recreation
ground on Spring Bank, but now demolished around 1930.
Click link for photo of John Clough and Thamar. Sir John Clough, Born 1836. Knighted in 1914.
Died 03 May 1922 at `Haincliffe'. His wife, Thamar, and daughter of Prince
Smith also born in 1836. died at `Haincliffe' on 09 March 1909, and so
never lived to share his finest hour in the presence King George
V.
 A
relic from Haincliffe House
Hainworth Wood House now called Haincliffe House
It
was divided from Red Holt around 1975 / 6 and was originally built
around 1900. is the original
house built for the son of Sir John Clough At some time an extra wing was added, the wing was later turned
into a residential home for the elderly, Red Holt.
Harden Grange, Harden
See St Ives
Hawkstones, Utley
William Marriner Brigg untill 1898. Click
here to see the household in 1881
Hayfield, Glusburn
 
Built for James Hartley, later taken over in the 1870's by
Hartley's partner John C Horsfall and extended. In 1922 Sir John Donald
Bart lived here.
Herncliffe
John J Waterworth Solicitor Click
here to see 1881 household
Highfield House.
Dr William Scatterty. Mary Quinn Teacher Trained Certifo (Sch) lived
here in 1881 Click
here to see 1881 household
Hillbrook, Spring Gardens
In 1881 Prince (Jnr) Smith lived here, his father living next door at
Holly House. Click
here to see household.
(Holly Croft) Holycroft House,
Oakworth Road.
Rudolph Strecker. Now flats.
Holly House, Spring Gardens
Lane.
Prince (Sen) Smith lived here in 1881 Click
here to see 1881 household
Kildwick
Hall
Sir John Brigg lived here 1895
-1911, he was the son of John Brigg of Calversyke Hill. William Anderton
(Keighley Mayor) & his brother Dr J.J. Brigg lived here from 1911
until the first world war. Currer fromoldbooks.org
Knoll,
(Knowle) House, Halifax Road, Keighley.
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Before the wealth of the manufactures arrived, this was the only
superior mansion in Keighley. The house was built by John
Greenwood, then bought by William Lund Worsted, manufacturer.
In 1881 William
Midgley is shown living at Knowle and William
Clough at Knowle Park. At some point William Clough lived here. Percy Clough lived
here in
1913.
The house still stands. After
Percy Clough's death there on 29 February 1956, the House became the
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Knowle Spring
House, Keighley.
Now called Green Gables. It's been a country club, and a public house.
Robert Aked, Esq. Who was listed in Baines's Directory and
Gazetteer Directory of 1822 (printer and circulating library) 109, Low
street. He also started a news paper called The Advertiser. In 1853 he
is listed as being a bookseller and having a stamp office, still at Low
Street. Alice is registered also at 104 Low Street as a straw hat
maker. Robert's daughter Charlotte married Timothy Taylor the brewer. John Aked Taylor, born 1917, the grandson of Timothy Taylor
and great grandson of Elizabeth Petyt. He was knighted in 1972 and in
1982 was created a Life Peer. Click
here to see household in 1881
Laural Mount, Woodville Road
  
Laverock Hall Oakworth
Home of: Midgley's - Willis Hall 'Billy Liar' playwright lived at Laverock
Hall Photo thisisbradford.co.uk Henry Pighills, rebuilt Laverock Hall, in 1640 moon-rakers.co.uk
Longlands,
Cross Roads.
Built in 1884 for Edwin Robinson Merrall.
The Merrall's left Longlands at the start of the First World War.
Mr Inglis bought the property around 1920, he turned the billiard room
into a ballroom.. It was sold to Mr Paley just before the Second World
War, he had intended to turn it into a hotel. It was later sold to the
Heald Brothers, who used it as an hostel for immigrant mill girls. Sold
in the 1960's to developers, who built on the land, and the house fell
into disrepair. The house was then sold for use as an old peoples home.
Bought in 1975 for use by YHA. Photo of the lodge haworth-village.org.uk
Low Mill House
Demolished about 1850, stood somewhere around where Iceland and Aldi are
now.
Malsis Hall
James Lund of Malsis Hall, Crosshills millenniumschools.co.uk Donated Lund
Park to Keighley.
 
Manor House,
Braithwaite Village
Built in 1600's by Thomas Hird, used as
a Quaker meeting house in the 18th century.
Manor House, Laycock
Marley Hall
Home to the Marley's, Maude's, Currer's and Saviles. Rebuilt by
John Savile in 1627. Robert Savile sold it to Samual Sunderland, who on
his death bequeathed it to Robert Parker. Mrs. Ferrand bought it in 1842. the Walkers', lived here in the
1960's pcug.org.au see picture Page 94. members.tripod.com
In White's Directory of 1837 John Blagbrough is listed as farmer here,
one assumes that they meant Marley Hall Farm. I believe that this 1881
census listing is for Marley Hall, and was miss spelt
Extracts from Keighley Past & Present:
Marley, though not a Doomsday manor, is men¬tioned in the survey as a
place within the soke of Bingley, containing one carucate of land, but
returned as waste. This village at an early period seems to have given
name to a family; for in the ninth of Edward II., a “Peter de Marthley
and Ralph de Ilketon” were lords of the adjoining manor of Morton.
This place was for some time the residence of the Currers, and, as
stated in the pedigree, “Wil¬liam Currer of Marley, who married
Isabel, daughter of Christopher Maud, Esq., of Rolling Hail, was the son
of the first Hugh Currer of Kildwick, and elder brother of Henry of
Kildwick, who died 19th Aug., 1568.” In the “History of Craven,”—
“The manor of Bingley was sold to the Walkers, and by them to Hugh
Currer of Marley, whose grandson, Henry Currer, Esq., of Gawthorpe, in
the year 1668, sold it to Robert Benson, father of the first Lord
Bingley.” There is also a farm belonging to the Marley estate still
bearing the name of ‘Currer Laith;’ but it appears to have entirely
escaped the notice of antiquarians that Marley Hall was once the honored
abode of a Saville. This house was rebuilt by John Saville in the year
1627,. Whose arms and initials are still to be seen in several places.
Miss Saville was married at Keighley, 1606, to Mr. Dean, son of the
Bishop of Ossory in Ireland, who was then Dean of Kilkenny. The
wife of J. Saville was buried at Keighley.
1638. This family, as was com¬mon with the great and affluent of that
period, maintained their hal or jester to go on errands, amuse and
entertain the visitors. ‘Sil o’ Marley’ it is said,
that as he was carrying into the distant fields a number of pies for the
dinner of the laboring men, his appetite stimulated by the delicious
odour of his burden—the Bingley bells began to chime; and, ‘as the
fool thinketh, the bell tinketh,’ to him they said most audibly, “Eat
pies, Sil,—eat pies, Sil ;“ to which invitation he as plainly and
audibly responding “Yes, and I will,—-yes, and I will,” sat
himself down and so manfully discussed the contents, that when he
arrived at his journey’s end there was nothing left but the mutilated
remains to place before the eyes of the hungry and disappointed
ploughmen.
On another occasion, Sil having been sent with a gentleman, by whom he
had been much teased during the day, to the river side, in order to show
him the passage or ford, conducted him in a contrary direction, and to
the deepest part of the water. The gentleman on observing this, cried
out with impatience, “How, you silly rascal, how must I get over here?“
to which interrogation Sil coolly and provokingly replied, “You must
swim over, swim over, Sir; Mr. Saville’s geese always swim over.
Mayfield House
1881 Henry Wright lived here, click
here to see household
Myrtle Grove,
Bingley.
Built in the 1700's where Springhead Farm once stood. Of those that
lived there were Johnson Atkinson Busfield who was married to Elizabeth Busfield, sole heiress of William Busfield Esq. of Ryshworth Hall.
Wesley, a Methodist preacher used to stop at the Grove and stay with
Busfield when he was preaching in the area. General Twiss also lived at
the Grove. In 1856, Mr. Alfred Sharp moved in. The Sharp family moved
out in 1881, returning in 1888. Click
here to see 1881 household
Myrtle Grove House, Cross Roads.
Netherwood, Ferncliffe Drive,
Utley. Fred Ogden 1913.
Must be a house of some substance as it has a gatehouse.
Netherwood Hall, Spring gardens Lane (Or Skipton Road). Was where
Cliffe Castle now stands was actually called Cliff Hall, but in
some instances recorded as Netherwood Hall, when Butterfield bought the
property he dismantled it and his Steward James Wright bought it and
rebuilt it up New Road Side, renaming it The Whins. Netherwood was built
by Christopher Netherwood a Keighley Lawyer who moved to Steeton
Hall.
Oaks The. Oakworth Road.
Now an old peoples home.
Oak Bank House.
The Haggas family lived here. Later
became the Boys Grammar School. Click
here to see 1881 household
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Oaklands, Skipton Road.
Oakworth
House
victorianturkishbath.org home of Sir
Isaac Holden oakworthvillage.com Vale n Dale
Oakworth Hall
gateserver.net oakworthvillage.com pricex.com
Oakworth
Road House (possibly
Balcony House)
Ickringill William 1913
Oxenhope (Old) Hall.
Rushworth 1805. Photo haworth-village.org.uk
Parkfield House, Thwaites Brow
Ickringill
Thomas 1913 a Bradford textile mill owner and despite his wealth
never owned a car and used to walk to Stockbridge to catch the
bus.
Park-wood house, Parkwood Street
Alfred
Baldwin 1913. The house now stands lonely and in a sorry state.
Pine wood, Oakworth
Demolished in 1936. All that remains is the lodge, now called Pinewoods.
We hear that there is a greetings card with a photograph of Pine Wood sent
from an M. Blosfields to the tenents of Pinewoods, who were Mrs and Mrs
Donisthorpe, dated 1979.
Ponden Hall, Stanbury.
Owned by the Heatons. Possibly Thrushcross Grange in Wuthering
Heights. baronage.co.uk
Poplars The, Oakworth Road
Allan Gill 1913. Now flats
Prospect House,
In 1881 Thomas Wall Wine Merchant lived here, click
here to see census. Later Benjamin F Marriner.
Red Holt,
Hainworth
Red Holt is the original house built for the son of Sir John
Clough, Henry Smith
Clough
J.P 1913. Built around 1889 the gate house served both Red
Holt and Haincliffe House. Red Holt was used as a
residential home for the elderly until 2006.
Information from Allan Smith:
The following is a mixture of what my mother told me, and my own
recollections supplemented with trace of more recent research. 'Red
Holt' was built in 1889 in the Arts and Crafts style as a wedding
present from Sir John Clough (not yet knighted), for his son, Henry
Smith Clough, and Elizabeth Ambler. They were married by the Rev. John
J. Maguinness at St. Lukes, Manningham, on Wednesday 26 June 1889.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Jeremiah Ambler of Selbourne Villas,
Manningham, manufacturer, and Sarah Jane Walker, who were married at
Bradford Parish Church (now the Cathedral) on Wednesday 20 December
1865. The architects for 'Red Holt' were Mawson & Hudson of Exchange
Buildings, Bradford, and the house was extended in 1902 to include a
billiard room and various other facilities.
The architect for the Lodge at the bottom of the drive, was David
Wilkinson Weatherhead, and herein lies some family interest. He was the
brother of Sir John Clough's mother, Nancy, mentioned previously
regarding Keighley pubs and inn as being the daughter of William
Weatherhead, landlord of the Commercial Inn on Church Green. For more
information about the Clough family please see the family
page.
Royd House.
Ryshworth Hall Bingley,
The Eltofts sold it in 1591 to Edward Binns & Abm Binns. It was
later sold in 1672 to W Busfield by Abraham Bynnes esq. J.P. Others that
have lived there are Alfred Harris, Mr Dunlope and Mr. Sugden. 1837
Frederick
Greenwood , Esq is listed in White's Directory of 1837 as living here.
In 1844 Anne Marsh (Marsh Caldwell) writes: Mr W Ellis and his sister Miss Fanny. Mr Ellis the father (not at dinner) is
a mill owner and has a mill just in front of Ryshworth drawing room
windows. Mr L. Briggs is recorded as
living here in 1915
St Ives / Harden
Grange, Harden
Built 1616, the home of the
Ferrands. William Busfield Ferrand inherited the estate in 1854 and
changed the name to St Ives. Harden Grange was rebuilt in 1855. The 1852
OS map shows the access to the Grange being at Cross Gates Lane. The
grand gateposts can be seen halfway up Alter Lane bridleway. The music
room at Harden Grange holds a stained glass window designed in 1862 by
Burne-Jones depicting the Wedding of Sir Tristram. friendsofstives.org.uk cecilhigginsartgallery.org fu
jen White's Directory of 1837 give Edward Ferrand Esq, living
at St Ives and Walker Ferrand , Esq at Harden grange. Click
here to see 1881 household.
The hall was used as a base by General Fairfax during the civil war; a
table found in the house was inscribed: "This table was at Harden
Hall when the troops under General Fairfax were encamped at Harden Moor
MDCXLII. In the 19th century, the estate was called alternately Halton
Grange and Harden Grange. The present name may be after a holy well in
the area which is associated with the 7th Century abbess St. Iva.
A granite obelisk near the lake commemorates the career of Busfield
Ferrand (1809-1889), a Member of Parliament and magistrate.
Shann
Manor.
Hawkstone Drive, Utley
Home of
Raymond Marriner.
Shroggs, Steeton
Home of John Clough. Sadly demolished in
1994, The gate house still stands.
Springfield,
Skipton Road.
Now a doctors surgery. In 1881 Richard L. Hattersley Machine Maker
Employing 20 Men 74 Boys lived here. Click
here to see household
Springhead
House, Oakworth.
Greenwood Joseph, esq. 1829 Then
Hartley Merrall
STEETON HALLS
We apologies that there might be some wrong information re the Halls and
Manors of Steeton, which of these was the site of the original manor
house as not yet become clear to us. If you are using the below
information for research we ask that you do not accept the below as
fact. Any that relate to the building near the beck we I think can
assume it to be the hall shown as the Low Hall.
1583 Anthony Garforthe paid £12 rent for the manor house.
The present Steeton Hall may well have been built on the site of the
earlier manor house. The hall was rebuilt, according to a date stone, by
the Garforth’s in 1662. In the late 18th century a carriage drive and
garden features were created, but after the sale of the hall in 1819 the
carriage drive was redirected and around 1863 the hall was partly
rebuilt. It is traditionally believed that a small plot of land to the
rear of the hall, subsequently incorporated into a larger enclosure, was
a former burial ground though no evidence exists to substantiate this
(Clough 1886).
"The Manor-house called Steeton Hall, standeth at the north
end of the said town upon the banks of a brook called Steeton
Beck". We also find mention else where "Christopher Netherwood
the younger of Steeton Hall, Kildwick"
Steeton
Hall: Steeton Low Hall. Mid C 19 but
incorporating earlier C 17 details
Built for Sir Guy Fairfax in circa 1474 tudorplace.com stirnet.com (the Fairfax family apl385.com).
Around 1558 there was an inventory made of the property of Sir
William Fairfax, (inherited the estate from his father, Sir Philip
Fairfax) the hall by then had a chapel, nine bedrooms, two
studies, a hall and a parlor. Guy Hatton Sugden was born here in
1852 homepage.ntlworld.com His brother lived at Eastwood House. - Garfoths - Christopher Netherwood
Esq - Sam Clough 1911. Sam Clough
was Sir Robert's brother, of Greenbank,
Greenhead Lane. and had Clough's Mill at Steeton. His daughter Dorothy
was prominent in the Girl Guides a movement with which she worked all
her life.- A Mr. Craven lived here, or could possibly have
been Steeton Manor. in 1940 and Miss Dorothy Clough in the 1960's arch.wyjs.org.uk John
Marwood homepage.mac.com. Former
home of Dorothy Clough, was opened as a Restaurant by Barry Robinson on
25 July 1983.
Steeton High Hall:(Elmsley House) Initialled
and dated HC/AC extended and altered 1921 by Godfrey L Clarke. AD/1674
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Rebuilt in 1674 In 1934
this was the home of photographer Alex Keighley. thisisbradford.co.uk.
Steeton Manor. c1894
by Sir Swire-Smith
Strong Close
House, Keighley.
Strong Close Park
Joseph Craven built the house in
1864. Demolished in 1910. Click
here to see 1881 household. set in 15 acres of parkland alongside
the River Worth
Sutcliffe House
Near to WorthVille. In 1881 occupied by Robert Stansfield, Vicar
Designate Of St Peters Keighley. click
here to see the household in 1881
Sutton Hall, Sutton
Designed in 1893 by Samuel Jackson for John Hartley of Greenwood Mill.
Sold in 1933 to E. Turner. Demolished in the 1940's. The gate house
still stands.
Thorncliffe, Dawson
Road
1881 Thomas Henry BURR Solicitor
Thwaites House
Built in 1780 by Thomas Rishworth
Vernon House, High Utley.
Samuel Clapham 1913
Walk House
Next to Walk Mill, occupied in 1881 by John Riley Wool Buyer from
Bradford. Click
here to see 1881 census
Westfield House
1881 John Laycock Ironmonger (Employ 3 Journeymen) 2 Labrs 5
Apprentice lived here. Click
here to see household
West
Riddlesden Hall, Keighley.
This was for a long time the residence of the Maud family. The house
eventually came into the owner ship of the Leach family by marriage.
Later John Greenwood of Knoll,
Keighley, bought the house. pcug.org.au
Pdf See Pages 320 & Picture
152
West View House, Oakworth Road
Harrison Thomas 1913. Now the Grafton Club.
Whins, New Road Side.
It has been said that when
BUTTERFIELD decided to demolish the old Cliffe Hall in order to
start from scratch and build Cliffe Castle, the house was taken
down and rebuilt by James WRIGHT at Whinswood, and re-named 'The
Whins'.
Certainly, the WRIGHTS were resident at 'The Whins' in 1881,
which fits in about right with the time that Cliffe Castle was
built. Part of a letter, to
who we do not know, but it starts off: Tell James Write .... asking
them to ensure that James Wright takes all fire precautions at 'the
mansion'. This confirms his stewardship there. In the account of James
Wright's funeral, it definitely says that the old Cliffe Hall (or
Netherwood Hall as they called it) was dismantled and re-built as 'The
Whins'.
James Wright Owned four mills, Damside, Lumbfoot, Prospect and Ingrams
mills.
Whinburn, Hollins Lane
Large house with attached stable block. C1890, rebuilt 1912-13 to the
designs of Sir
John W Simpson and Maxwell O Ayrton of London. Built for Prince
Smith. The market cross which used to stand in Church Green, was moved
into the grounds of Whinburn. In 1881 Percy Milligan
General Practioner M.R.C.S.E.L.Sc.Lond lived
here. Click
here to see 1881 census
Wildfell. Oakworth
Miss Cockshott.
Woodville,
Spring Gardens
James Ellison
Haggas
J.P
1913 Click
here to see 1881 household
Woodworth House,
Halifax Road.
Robert Clough. Now in the hands of
NHS, turned in to flats and use for "independent living".
Worthville.
William B Naylor The Marriner family lived here in 1881 click
here to see the household
Wycoller Hall, Wycoller.
Built by the Hartley family at the end of the 16th century. Wycoller was
subsequently extended in the 18th by Squire Henry Owen Cunliffe as part
of his campaign to attract a wealthy wife. Skipton
Web
Yew Bank, Skipton
Road.
In 1881 William Town Paper Manufacturer lived here, click
here to see 1881 household. Later Sir Robert Clough
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