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History of Otley · Historic England
149 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I
On the Historic England list, all of them stand inside Otley’s built-up area, 102 for every 10,000 residents. Of the listed buildings in Otley, 146 are Grade II. 26% of its homes were built before 1919. We have photos of 6 of its listed buildings. Otley grades A for history: #12 of 91 in West Yorkshire.
Listed buildings
149
102 per 10,000 residents
Grade I
1
exceptional interest
Grade II*
2
more than special interest
Scheduled monuments
0
nationally important sites
Homes built before 1919
26%
typical UK town 15%
In pictures
Otley in 6 photos
Nearly every Grade I and II* building, photographed. Tap a photo to step through them full screen.
Parish Church of All SaintsGrade I listed
16 Manor SquareGrade II* listed
The Old CockGrade II listed
Otley Methodist ChurchGrade II listed
Old Post OfficeGrade II listed+1See all photosPhotos from Wikimedia Commons and Geograph, copied to our own server, each credited to its photographer with its licence; names open the building’s page or its official list entry.
The map
Where Otley’s history is
Every Grade I and II* building, monument and historic park, over the age of each neighbourhood’s homes.
Grade IGrade II*
Homes built before 1919, by neighbourhoodunder 10%10–25%25–50%50%+
1 of 10neighbourhoods have mostly pre-1919 homes; in the oldest, 54% were built before 1919.
Hover a dot for its name; tap one with a photo to open it.
149 listed buildings by grade
1 Grade I2 Grade II*146 Grade II
Historic England lists buildings in three grades: Grade I for buildings of exceptional interest (about 2.5% of all listed buildings), Grade II* for particularly important buildings of more than special interest (about 5.8%), and Grade II for buildings of special interest (about 91.7%). Listing protects the whole building, inside and out.
Every entry on the National Heritage List for England whose point lies inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary. One list entry can cover a terrace or a group of buildings. Neighbourhood dots: the population-weighted centre of each Census 2021 output area, coloured by its neighbourhood’s (LSOA’s) share of homes built before 1919 (Valuation Office Agency, March 2025).
Grade I
The Grade I listed building in Otley
Buildings of exceptional interest, about 2.5% of all listed buildings. Every one is photographed. Each opens its own page, with the official list entry.
Grade II*
The 2 Grade II* listed buildings in Otley
Particularly important buildings of more than special interest. Every one is photographed.
II*Public · listed 1951The Old HallPhoto: Mtaylor848 · CC BY-SA 4.0
II*House · listed 195116 Manor SquarePhoto: Simon Cobb · CC0
Historic streets
Bondgate has the most listed buildings
Streets by the listed entries with an address on them. One entry can be a whole terrace, so long rows count once.
Bondgate14 listed
Kirkgate12 listed
Boroughgate10 listed
Market Place9 listed
Beech Hill7 listed
Cross Green7 listed
Manor Square7 listed · 1 II*
Clapgate4 listed
Ilkley Road4 listed
Mercury Row3 listed
New Market3 listed
Of the 149 entries, 93 are named by a street address; the rest are named buildings such as churches, halls and bridges.
What’s protected
Most of Otley’s listed buildings are homes
Every listed building sorted by what its list name says it is.
Houses, terraces & villas114
Inns, shops & warehouses15
Public & civic buildings9
Walls, gates & bridges6
Memorials, crosses & tombs2
Churches, chapels & priories2
Street furniture1
114 entries (77%) are houses, terraces and villas. 2 are churches, chapels and priories, including 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings.
Buildings are sorted by words in each entry’s name (church, gate, inn, memorial…): the list’s open data has no building type. An entry named only by its address counts as a house.
Grade II
146 Grade II listed buildings
Most listed buildings are in this grade, which covers buildings of special interest. Open any building to read its official list entry.
All 146 Grade II listed buildings, A to Z
All Saints Church of England Middle School with Caretaker's HouseAll Saints VicarageBarn to Number 9Bay Horse Public HouseBlack Bull Public HouseBloomfield HouseBoat BuildingsBowling Green HotelChippendale HouseChurch HallCross Green Youth CentreEast gates, gate piers, railings and outer piers to Weston HallEntrance Block and Casual Wards at Wharfedale General HospitalFormer Infirmary Block and Retaining Wall and Steps at Wharfedale General HospitalFormer Stables and Farm Buildings and Boundary Walls to Manor House Stables to Manor House Wall to Manor HouseGarden Alcove in the Garden at Rear of Number 6Ivy HouseJubilee ClockK6 Telephone Kiosk adjacent to number 1Leather Warehouse (Former Barn Between Numbers 39 and 41)Main Block and adjoining Ancillary Buildings at Wharfedale Hospital (Block 20)Manor HouseMemorial to Victims of Bramhope Tunnel DisasterNewall HallNo 11 and Caley HouseNo 7 Manor House Public House and No 9No. 14 BondgateNo. 4 and 6 BoroughgateNo. 9 Manor SquareOld Post OfficeOtley Congregational Church and Sunday SchoolOtley Liberal ClubOtley Methodist ChurchOtley War Memorial Cross and Memorial GardenOtley Westgate First School Eastern Block (Original School) with Playground Wall to Front and SideOutbuildings to West of Throstle Nest FarmhousePair of K6 Telephone Kiosks to Rear of Market PlacePremises Occupied by Leeds House CafeRed Lion Public HouseRose and Crown Public HouseRoyal Oak HouseRoyal White Horse HotelSilver Mill ComplexThe Fleece Public HouseThe Junction Public HouseThe Masons, Piper LaneThe Mechanics InstituteThe Old CockThe Otley TavernThrostle Nest FarmhouseWest Lodge and Otley Lodge and associated walls, gate pillars and gatesWhitakers Arms Public HouseWhite Swan Public HouseYew Tree Public House1 Mercury Row1 and 2 Church Lane1, 1A and 3, Beech Hill1, Bridge Street1-5, Cross Green1-5, Guycroft10 and 12, Kirkgate101, Cross Green103 and 105, Cross Green11 Manor Square11 and 13, Kirkgate12 and 14, Manor Square12, Mercury Row121, Ilkley Road13, Manor Square14 Gay Lane15, Clapgate16 and 18, Market Place16, Bondgate17-21, Clapgate18-24, Beech Hill19, Crow Lane19, Kirkgate19, Sugar Street2 Boroughgate2 and 4, Market Street2, Courthouse Street2, Kirkgate2, Market Place21, Crow Lane21-25, Kirkgate22 Kirkgate22 and 24, Bondgate22 and 24, Market Place24, New Market25, Clapgate25, Cross Green26 and 26 New Market26 and 28, Bondgate26, Beech Hill27, Clapgate27, New Market28 and 28A, Beech Hill29, Cross Green3 Milestones Built in to Side of Weston Lane, Newhall Avenue and Farnley Avenue3 and 5, Mercury Row3, Bondgate30, Bondgate32 and 34, Market Place32, 34 and 38, Bondgate33 and 35, Kirkgate33, Ilkley Road35, Ilkley Road36 and 38 Boroughgate36, Cross Green36, Market Place37 and 39, Kirkgate38, Market Place4 and 6, Market Place4, Kirkgate40, Bondgate40, Boroughgate40, Market Place41 and 43, Ilkley Road42 Bondgate44 and 46 Boroughgate5 and 7 Bondgate5, Beech Hill5, Manor Square50-54, Kirkgate56, Boroughgate58 and 60, Boroughgate6 and 6A, Kirkgate6-12, Market Street61 and 63, Kirkgate63-69, Cross Green64 Boroughgate65, Bondgate66, Boroughgate67 and 69, Bondgate7, Beech Hill7, Courthouse Street7, Manor Square7-13, Boroughgate71 and 73, Bondgate75, Bondgate8, 8A and 10, Manor Square8, Boroughgate8, Market Place8-14, Charles Street9 Bondgate9, Beech Hill
Conservation areas
1 conservation area covers 95% of Otley
Areas the council protects as a whole: demolition and changes to how buildings look need consent, and trees are protected.
No data available for publication by HE318 ha
318 hain conservation areas, of 333 ha inside the built-up area.
148 of the 149 listed buildings stand in one.
Historic England’s conservation areas layer, supplied by councils (incomplete in places, so a page fact, never graded). Hectares are the part of each area inside the built-up area.
How the list grew
More than half of Otley’s listed buildings were added in one year, 1974
The year each building now on the list was first listed.
1974 · 1151951 · 16
19501960197019801990200020102020
The first 16 entries were listed in 1951, 1 of the 1 Grade I buildings among them. 115 came in 1974, in the national resurvey of the 1970s and 80s. Only 1 has been added in the last 15 years.
History Grade
Otley grades A for history
Protected heritage and the age of the town’s homes, against all UK towns.
Protected heritage, for its size and in all (153 points, 105 per 10,000 residents)More than 82% of UK towns
Homes built before 1919 (26%)More than 76% of UK towns
Two measures, each ranked against every UK town of 1,000 or more, with protected heritage counting twice as much as the age of homes. Protected heritage counts each listed building by its grade (Grade I three points, II* two, II one), each scheduled monument and battlefield two, and each registered park or garden by its grade; it is ranked both per 10,000 residents and as a total, so a village with one fine church doesn’t outrank a historic city. The second measure is the share of homes built before 1919, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records. History is a character grade: it describes the town and isn’t part of the overall grade.
Homes by age
26% of Otley’s homes were built before 1919
Every home by when it was built, from council tax records, against England & Wales (the dark tick).
24%
Before 1900
2.6%
1900–18
11%
1919–29
8.9%
1930s
7.2%
1945–54
7.3%
1955–64
13%
1965–72
8.9%
1973–82
3.6%
1983–92
2.7%
1993–99
3.8%
2000–08
2.4%
2009–15
4.8%
2016–25
OtleyEngland & Wales
24% of homes are Victorian or older, against 16% across England and Wales. The busiest period since was 1965–72, which added 13% of today’s homes.
Valuation Office Agency, council tax stock of properties by build period, 31 March 2025, for the neighbourhoods (LSOAs) that make up the town, split by where their residents live. Homes with no recorded build period (6 here) are left out; 1939–44 is not a period in the data.
Born here
9 notable people born in Otley before 1900
Their lives on one timeline, earliest first.
Thomas Chippendale
Elizabeth Ritchie
Richard Garnett
James Snowden Calvert
Elizabeth Garnett
William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton
Harry Garnett
Samuel Flaxington
George Hughes
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Thomas Chippendale1718–1779 · British cabinet-maker (1718–1779)
William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton1840–1917 · British politician (1840–1917)
RG
Richard Garnett1789–1850 · English philologist and librarian (1789-1850)
SF
Samuel Flaxington1860–1895 · English cricketer (1860-1895)
Elizabeth Ritchie1754–1835 · Ritchie [married name Mortimer], Elizabeth (1754–1835), Methodist bio…
James Snowden Calvert1825–1884 · Australian explorer, botanist and botanical collector (1825-1884)
Elizabeth Garnett1839–1921 · Garnett [née Hart], Elizabeth (1839–1921), missionary to navvies and …
HG
Harry Garnett1851–1928 · English rugby union footballer
Everyone born in Otley → Birthplaces from Wikidata; portraits from Wikimedia Commons.
Towns its size
Otley has the 102nd most Grade I buildings of 560 towns its size
Places of 9,000–23,000 people outside London, by Grade I listed buildings.
Otley1
#88 of 560for listed buildings per resident (102 per 10,000). Ludlow, Bridport and Monmouth lead.
101 have more. The typical town its size has 0.
Neighbours
Listed buildings in the places around Otley
| Town | People | Listed | Grade I | History |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otley | 14,549 | 149 | 1 | A |
| Menston | 5,905 | 15 | 0 | C+ |
| Burley in Wharfedale | 6,806 | 41 | 1 | B+ |
| Guiseley | 12,462 | 25 | 1 | C+ |
| Pool-in-Wharfedale | 1,991 | 7 | 0 | C+ |
| Yeadon | 14,273 | 16 | 0 | C+ |
| Bramhope | 3,593 | 15 | 1 | C |
| Rawdon | 6,738 | 30 | 0 | B |
In brief
Otley in brief
More of Otley’s homes are old than in most places: 26% were built before 1919, against 15% in the typical UK town. All told, the list holds 149 listed buildings, 1 of them Grade I, including Parish Church of All Saints. For its size, it has more listed heritage than 82% of UK towns. Only 101 of the 560 towns nearest its size have more Grade I buildings.
A conservation area protects part of it. Most entries on the list, 77%, are houses, terraces and villas. Thomas Chippendale (1718), William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton (1840) and Richard Garnett (1789) are among the 9 people born here before 1900.
Questions about Otley’s history
How many listed buildings are there in Otley?
Historic England lists 149 buildings inside Otley’s built-up area: 1 Grade I, 2 Grade II* and 146 Grade II.
What are the Grade I listed buildings in Otley?
One: Parish Church of All Saints.
Which street in Otley has the most listed buildings?
Bondgate (14), Kirkgate (12) and Boroughgate (10) have the most listed entries named by an address. One entry can be a whole terrace.
How many conservation areas are there in Otley?
1, covering about 318 hectares of the town. The largest is No data available for publication by HE.
When were Otley’s buildings listed?
The first in 1951; the most, 115, in 1974.
Who was born in Otley?
Among people born before 1900: Thomas Chippendale (1718), William Jackson, 1st Baron Allerton (1840), Richard Garnett (1789), Samuel Flaxington (1860) and Elizabeth Ritchie (1754).
How old are the homes in Otley?
26% of homes were built before 1919 and 46% before 1940, from the Valuation Office Agency’s council tax records (March 2025).
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Sources: Historic England, National Heritage List for England (listed buildings, scheduled monuments, registered parks and gardens, battlefields, World Heritage Sites), October 2026, inside the ONS 2022 built-up-area boundary · Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties by build period (31 March 2025) · TownRatings grades: our own summary of the data, ranked against UK towns only · Historic England conservation areas (supplied by local planning authorities; October 2026). All under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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