West Yorkshire Historic Houses 

Bolling Hall

A largely 17th century manor house incorporating a tudor pele tower, with a wing altered in the late 18th century. Good collection of 17th century oak furniture, and large windows with stained glass coats of arms.

Bowling Hall Road, Bradford, BD4 7LP  Tel: 01274 723057

Bramham Park

This Queen Anne mansion was built in 1698, and its gardens laid out over the following thirty years by Robert Benson, First Lord Bingley. 300 years later, his family still own and live at Bramham Park, and welcome visitors as guests to their home

Bramham   Wetherby   LS23 6ND   Tel: 01937 846000   Email

Brontë Birthplace & Parsonage Museum

The former parsonage where Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne Bronte were born. This comfortable family home has a happy atmosphere and is being restored to its Bronte period

72/74 Market Street, Thornton, Bradford, BD13 3HF Tel: 01274 830849

Brontë Weaving Shed

The Bronte Weaving Shed is home to the famous Bronte tweed exclusively produced by our own weaver. Visitors can watch the hand weaving of the tweed on a Victorian handloom in the regular demonstrations.

Townend Mill, Haworth, BD22 7EP  Tel: 01535 646217

East Riddlesden Hall

A homely 17th century merchant’s house with a collection of embroideries, textiles and Yorkshire Oak furniture.  The gardens are set against the  ruins of the Starkie Wing with fruit trees, herbs and herbaceous borders. The Orchard Garden has old varieties of apple trees, swathes of bulbs and wildflowers, which bloom from spring to late summer. There is a 17th century oak framed barn in the grounds, the grass maze or Airedale Heifer playground. Children’s quiz sheets and guide.

Bradford Road, Keighley, BD20 5EL  Tel: 01535 607075   Email

Harewood House

Spectacular home of the Queen’s first cousin designed by John Carr and completed in 1772 with  interiors by Robert Adam. Award-winning gardens, popular adventure playground and lakeside bird garden.

Harewood  Leeds   LS17 9LQ   Tel:0113 218 1010   Email

Longley Old Hall

A timber framed Grade II manor house dating from 14th century once owned by the Ramsden family, former Lords of the Manor of Almonbury and Huddersfield for over 400 years

Longley   Huddersfield    HD5 8LB  Tel: 01484 430852.  Email

Lotherton Hall

A small country house, set in gardens and parkland. Formerly the home of the Gascoigne family who gave the house and estate to the City of Leeds in 1968. The Hall has fine pictures, furniture, silver, jewellery, pottery and porcelain. Many other treasures on show including oriental ceramics and costumes. Since the 1970s there has also be a bird garden. Deer park. The bird garden is part of the Edwardian country estate including deer park, gardens and trails. There are over 200 species in this collection of rare and endangered birds. As part of a major redevelopment programme the famous condors can be seen in their superb new quarters

Aberford, Leeds LS25 3EB   Tel. 0113 281 3259

Manor House Art Gallery and Museum

Dating from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries, the Manor House stands on part of the site of the Roman of Olicana. Houses local history, Roman remains and an art gallery.

Castle Yard, Ilkley, LS29 9DT  Tel: 01943 600066

Oakwell Hall Country Park

Grade I Elizabethan Manor House displayed as a late 17th century home. Set in formal gardens and 100 acres of Yorkshire country park.

Nutter Lane, Birstall, Batley  WF17 9LG  Tel: 01924 326240

Shibden Hall

Built in about 1420 by the Otes family, and subsequently lived in by the wealthy Saviles at the start of the 16th century, and then by the entrepreneurial Waterhouses, who extended the property and improved it. It is a half timbered manor house nd home to Anne Lister set in a landscaped park

Lister’s Road   Halifax  HX3 6XG Tel: 01422 352246   Email

Temple Newsam

One of the great historic estates in England. Set within over 1500 acres of parkland, woodland and farmland landscaped by Capability Brown in the 18th century, it is a magnificent Tudor-Jacobean mansion

Temple Newsam Road, off Selby Road Leeds LS15 0AE   Tel. 0113 264 7321   Email