gomersal also has many fine and historic houses which climb the hill of spen lane and along oxford road towards birkenshaw. houses such as spen hall, spen house (now demolished and rebuilt, except the coach house), high rising (high royd, another taylor household) now the gomersal hotel, tanfield house, firdene (currently on the market for £1.25 million), hilltop house (now split into two homes with apartment buildings in the grounds), gomers hall (apparently, originally gothmers hall, which was demolished to build an electricity sub-station), pollard hall (home of the mill owner thomas burnley), red house (now red house museum), broadyards, croft house, sigston house, gomersal hall, peel house, west house (the last three still privately owned).