Listed Buildings Within Conservation Area

The details of individual buildings are based upon the official descriptions, modified to take account of the changes of use that have taken place since the listing took place. Click on the thumbnails for further information about each building.


Chapel Row (north side), No 2 to 16 :: A long row of cottages built in the early-mid C19 with hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof. The 8 single-cell cottages have 2 storeys, are double-depth and each has one 3-light flat-faced mullioned stepped window to each floor to left of doorway with monolithic jambs with 2-light window above. 3 cottages have mid-late C20 glass storm porches covering door. The roofs have 8 stacks to the ridge. They are a good example of a long row of working-class housing providing accommodation for mill workers at the early stages of industrialisation. This is similar to Club Row. Club Row (north side) No 4 to 20 & 118 Main Street :: A long row of early to mid C19 cottages with a slightly later added cottage to left end and including No 118 Main Street. The 9 single-cell cottages are double-depth with two storeys. They are built with hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roofs and each has a left doorway with monolithic jambs and a 2-light window above. To the right of the doorway is a 3-light flat faced mullioned stepped window on each floor although some of these have been altered out of sympathy with the row. The roofs have 10 stacks to the ridge. The right-hand return wall fronts Main Street (no 118) and has doorway with monolithic jambs to left of mid C20 shop window. A good example of a long row of workers' cottages providing accommodation for mill workers during the early stages of industrialisation. Main Street (east side) Wilsden Lee Farmhouse and attached barn :: A mid C17 house and attached barn with the barn being rebuilt C1793, probably when the house was altered. There are large dressed stones to the wing, hammer-dressed stone to the hall range and the barn with stone slate roofs. It is a two storey building with a hall and cross wing plan that is T-shaped. The wing to the left has altered windows with hood mould to each floor with those to 1st floor having 4 lights with flat-faced mullions. There is a coped gable with kneelers with lateral stack to left. The hall range may replace an earlier timber structure because of the fenestration being entirely C18. The doorway with monolithic jambs is to the left of a 4-light flat-faced mullioned window (lacking 2 mullions) with a 6-light window with recessed mullions, the outer lights blind, above. There is ridge stack at the junction with the barn which has semicircular arched cart-entry with chamfered voussoirs and raised keystone initialled and dated “B F 1793”, one above dated “166-” with spiral label stops either side, now much weathered but in the mid C20 “1668” could be read. “B F” probably stands for Benjamin Ferrand of St. Ives who built St. David's Ruin nearby in 1790. The barn has been converted into four houses. Main Street (east side) Wilsden Manor House and attached barn (formerly listed as No 55 and barn adjoining) :: Although known as the Old Manor House, this was a farm house and never the home of a Lord of the Manor. A house and attached barn, initialled and dated “1684 I.M.E.M.” (Midgley family). The present stone is a C21 replacement for a badly weathered original. The building was much altered in the C19 and mid C20 with hammer-dressed stone (white washed), stone slate roof. There are 2 storeys, with single-storey out shut to the rear of the 2-cell house. The windows are mostly altered although a 4-light chamfered mullioned window survives to the 1st floor of the 1st cell. The main interest lies in the gabled porch with doorway with decorative ogee lintel with datestone above. Kneelers to either side suggest it was coped originally. Gable stacks with moulded cornice. The barn to the right has altered cart-entry and has now been converted to a house.
Main Street (east side) Wilsden Nos 71 to 77 (odd) and Nos 1 to 5 (odd) Garden View (adjoining to north-east) :: A block of 7 cottages, dated “1832 JEE” (James Emmott) with hammer-dressed stone, stone slate roof and an L-shaped range. Nos 71 to 77 have three storeys, 8 bays with 2 storey range adjoining north east of No 71 (Nos 1 to 5 Garden View). 1st-floor sill band. 2nd bay has arched cart-entry to rear with date plaque over keystone and 2-light window to each floor. Bays 3, 5 and 7 have doorway with monolithic jambs and single-light window above to each floor; 7th bay blind at 2nd floor. 1st bay has altered window with doorway to right and 2-light window to each floor. Bays 4, 6 and 8 have 2-light window to each floor. Bays 3, 4, 5 and 6 retain 9-pane sashes. Paired gutter brackets on table. 5 ridge stacks. Main Street (east side) Wilsden Wesleyan Sunday School :: The Wesleyan Sunday School is dated 1890 with hammer-dressed stone, slate roof with tile ridge was originally Westmorland green slate, replaced C21 with Burlington slate, being the nearest available substitute for quality and colour. The front gable has three tall arched, 2-light transomed windows with circle in apex of each arch and a circular window in the apex of the gable with dated carved stone above. The porches and wings at right angles to central block with ridge stacks at junction. After standing empty for many years it has recently been converted to apartments. Main Street (west side) No 90 (Spring Mill House) :: A Mill master's house that is probably late C18 and built of hammer-dressed stone with a stone slate roof. It has 2 storeys a two cell plan that is double-depth with gable entry, quoins, band and shaped gutter brackets. There are two bays of Venetian windows to each floor with impost blocks and keystones and gable stacks. The right-hand return has 2 bays of 2-light windows with single-light window above and a mid C20 gabled porch set between the bays and a circular window to apex. The house immediately adjoins the mill. Main Street (west side) Wilsden Mechanics Institute :: Mechanics Institute, now converted to 3 houses, dated 1837 built of hammer-dressed stone and a Welsh blue-slate roof. There are two storeys to front and left-hand return and three storeys to right-hand return. The building has a 3-bay symmetrical facade. The doorway with monolithic jambs, consoles and cornice has Gothic glazed overlight and set above is plaque engraved “MECHANICS INSTITUTION 1837”. To either side of the doorway, on both floors, there is a window with projecting sill. There is a moulded stone gutter, a hipped roof. The right-hand return of 6 bays has 3 cottage doorways set in the basement and single-light and 2-light windows to each floor. When used for its original purpose it had a library of 4,000 volumes, with a lecture room and museum, according to Kelly’s Directory - West Yorkshire, (1907), p109
Main Street (west side), No 134 and 136 :: A pair of semi-detached houses from the early C19 with an ashlar front, hammer-dressed stone to sides and rear and a stone slate roof. There are two storeys with a 4-bay symmetrical facade. The paired doorways are to the central bays and each has monolithic jambs, cornice, entablature with carved decoration and pediment. The windows have projecting sills and modern small-paned glazed upper casements. There are moulded stone gutters and gable stacks . Main Street (west side, off), Wilsden Walls flanking footpaths leading to Wilsden Hill and the recreation ground :: Footpath walls that are probably of C18 origin. The dry stone rubble walls flank footpaths running in 2 crossed diagonals up the hillside, the north-western one leading to the hamlet of Wilsden Hill. Stones set on edge form coping. The walls separate the 2 footpaths from the fields and former common land. The paths and walls were probably laid out to provide access for piece workers living on the hillside and as a direct line of access to the earliest mill complex on Main Street. Wilsden Hill (north side) No. 38 (Woodlands Farmhouse) and Cottage adjoining to south-west :: A house and attached cottage from the mid C18 although the cottage may be earlier. There is a 2-storey house and a single-storey cottage with hammer-dressed stone, rendered to cottage with stone slate roofs. The single-cell cottage to left has 3-light flat-faced mullioned window to left of doorway with monolithic jambs. The house has a 3-bay symmetrical façade with raised quoins, band and eaves cornice. The doorway has an architrave and a 6-panel door; single-light window above. The outer bays have windows with architraves of 2 wide lights, perhaps of 4 lights originally, with flat-faced mullions. There are coped gables with a ridge stack.