The first known reference to the Manor of Bolling was in the Domesday Book in 1086, however the building as it exists today was completed in 1370 and extended in the 1400's. The Manor orignially consisted of wooden framed buildings and by 1086 was owned by Ilbert De Laci, a gift from the King for his help at the Battle of Hastings. In 1316 William Bolling is described as Lord of the Manor, while during the War of the Roses, Robert Bolling supported and fought for the Lancastrians after which he was accused of high treason by Edward 4th. His life was saved by pardon of the King but his land and manor were taken from him. In 1475 his estates were returned, which his son Tristam inherited in 1487 and passed on to his only surviving child, Rosamund, who married Richard Tempest in 1497. Tempest, who inherited and extended the house, was knighted in 1513 and was elected to Parliament in 1529, however he died in jail in 1537 awaiting trial for involvement in the Rebellion of Northern Gentry. During the Civil War Bolling Hall was the Royalist Headquarters for the siege of Bradford in 1643, and after the Tempest's sufferred financial difficulties the Manor was sold to Henry Savile, after which it passed through many hands until th 1870's when it was divided into family tenements. In 1915 the hall was opened as a period house and museum of local history. Apparitions sighted at the hall have included a distressed woman and baby in the Robert Bolling Room, a man with long coats tails in the Blue Room, and a female ghost dressed in a pale silk dress seen many times by staff and visitors. At the bottom of the Georgian stairwell a woman in a pink dress has been seen, while the stairs and main hall have seen apparent activity including rotting odours, rattling sounds and ragging noises.