Another view of Cottingley Hall
1659 - 1872
The old Hall stood at the top of the village - the last house as one left on the way to Bradford.
It was a picturesque Jacobean building and was demolished on 1872. It bore the double cross
of the Knights of St. John and also an initialled stone, R.F.A.F. 1659; the initials being those
of Robert and Anne Ferrand. It is thought to have occupied the site of a much older building, for the Franks,
resided at Cottingley Hall long before the Reformation.
(Harry Speight -Chronicles and
Stories of Old Bingley)
";Cottingley House, now known as Cottingley Hall, is a handsome old mansion, standing pleasantly amidst
";tall ancestral trees";, close to the village. The original building consists of three stories,
the principal entrance to it, which was obliterated by the wing built by the Wickhams,
having been at the west end. Over the front door is carved a buck's head; being the crest
of the Wickhams. Formerly the coaches passed through the park, and emerged on the road by the
archway opposite the Town Well, continuing upwards past the Sun Inn.";
Cottingley House was the seat of the Dobsons and the Lamplugh -Wickhams. It passed to the Ferrands by purchase. Mr. Richard Thornton, father of the explorer, was a tenant there. Mr Charles H Priestley took Cottingley Hall in 1887. After his death his wife continued to live at the Hall until her death when it was sold to Mr. Harry Briggs and then Mr Asa Lingard. The Hall was demolished during the 1914/18 war..
