Westgate House

Another prominent family in the woollen industry, the Amblers, built Westgate House in 1814. Westgate House is now a bakery and cafe. They also owned the warehouse next to it which is now the Suburban Style Bar (for a while, until about 2004, it was Kirby's).

The Suburban still retains the door through which the wool was hoisted into the warehouse. In the 1840s Jerimiah Ambler was possibly the richest man in Baildon, having more servants than anyone else. He was a wool merchant. Farmers brought their wool on donkeys to sell to him. It was said that if a half soveriegn rolled down Northgate it would turn itself up Westgate to Ambler's.