Notable Buildings
The five drawings of Old Burley are by a Northern Artist, Eric
Wostenholme, of Kirkham, Lancashire, who donated these drawings to the
Burley Community Council
Burley House
Built by Thomas Maude, a poet, in the eighteenth century, possibly on
the site of an earlier mansion. The Maudes, members of the local gentry,
had lived in Burley from at least the sixteenth century and were among
the biggest land owners in the area. The house passed into the hands of
other families, notably the Andertons and the Horsfalls, in the
nineteenth century. Since that time it has been a private school, a
hotel, a restaurant and, in recent years, headquarters for commercial
organisations.
The Grange
Built by John Peele Clapham, the founder of Salem Church, in the
early 1840's. It then passed into other hands, the Stansfields, the
Emsleys and the Hodsons. In 1905 the house and its park were sold to
Burley Urban District Council for public use. Under Ilkley Urban
District Council from 1937, it continued to be used as Council Offices
and to house the public library. For over 80 years also, part of it was
leased to the Grange Men's Club. The whole of the building is now part
of Bradford College and is used for adult education in Wharfedale.
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Iron Row
The cottages known as Iron Row (and originally New Row) were built
about 1800 by the Burley Cotton Mill owners at Greenholme for their
workers. The one-up, one-down properties remained virtually unchanged
until the Greenholme Estate was sold up in 1968. The Row for 150 years
echoed to the steps of the numerous mill workers who passed by, to and
from their work.
Township School
This building was erected in 1862 to replace the old Mechanics'
Institute and Day School which had stood at the bottom of Station Road
in the first half of the nineteenth century. The building remained in
use as an Infants' school until 1922. It also functioned as the meeting
place of the Burley Local Board of Health and its successor the Burley
Urban District Council until 1905. Later the Township building was used
as a practice room for Burley Brass Band.
Until recently it served as extra educational premises and was a
Craft and Design Centre for Teachers in the West Riding and Bradford.
When it was bought in the 1990's by Burley Developments Ltd the moneys
were used to set up the Burley Education Trust, a charity to aid
education in the village. The buildings have been pleasantly refurbished
by its new owners in keeping with the character of Burley's
Conservation Area.
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Lecture Hall
Originally known as the Lecture Hall, it was built in 1868 by the then
mill owners, Fison and Forster, whose initials can be seen carved in the
stone over the large window nearest to the Red Lion. The hall was built
to provide recreational and educational activities in the village.
Greenholme Mills School used the section of the hall, now known as the
Annexe, until 1897. The two stone celtic crosses in front of the hall
commemorate Fison and Forster.