Griffin Silhouette

Cliffe Castle in Keighley was originally called Cliffe Hall and was built by Christopher Netherwood between 1828 and 1833. It was designed by George Webster of Kendal, a gothic revivalist.
The Butterfields, a textile manufacturing family, bought Cliffe Hall in 1848. Henry Butterfield transformed the building by adding towers, a ballroom and conservatories from 1875 to 1880, and renamed it Cliffe Castle in 1878.
He decorated the building with the griffin motif, which he had adopted as a heraldic crest.