Measure the turn before you buy the three-door wardrobe

Furniture here comes from three directions. There is the town-centre retail around The Grove, Brook Street and Church Street, the units on Coutances Way at Burley in Wharfedale, and Drill Hall Business Park between Leeds Road and East Parade. Most of it, though, is bought down in Leeds or Bradford and needs bringing up the valley - fifteen miles by the A6038 over Hollins Hill and the A65 through Menston, with no surcharge for the distance.

The interesting half is the doorway. A three-storey villa swallows furniture easily until the flight above the first landing, where the handrail eats the width; the through-terraces off Leeds Road and around Ashlands have one front door and nothing round the back. Send a photo looking up the stairs and one of the turn, and we will say honestly whether a piece goes in on its feet, on its end, or flat-packed.

What Ilkley furniture & large item transport usually involves

Station Road and the town-centre car parks are pay-and-display every day of the week, three hours maximum with no return inside three hours, which is ample for a delivery and worth knowing if two pieces are going into different rooms
Springs Lane is No Waiting At Any Time, and Brook Street and Church Street sit in the conservation area with narrow footways, so a flat in the centre means a short stop and a longer carry
The town has never been bypassed - the A65 runs straight through as Leeds Road and Skipton Road - so we work around the commuter peaks rather than sit in them with a loaded van
Curly Hill, Nesfield Road and Langbar Road are steep, narrow and blind-bended with nowhere to turn a long van, so Middleton-side addresses get planned from one end before we set off
Store delivery books a date weeks out and stops at the first dry room; we carry it up to the room it belongs in, and the old wardrobe or table can go out to the van on the same visit

Where in Ilkley we work

The Grove, Brook Street and Church Streetthe town-centre shops, with conservation-area frontages and narrow footways that decide where the van stands
Coutances Way, Burley in Wharfedaleunits on the A65 at the LS29 edge of town, an easy loading stop on the way in from Guiseley
Drill Hall Business Parkbetween Leeds Road and East Parade, for trade and office furniture rather than a house delivery
Wells Road and the Middleton sidethree-storey villas behind long drives, where the staircase turn decides what goes in assembled
Ben Rhyddingdetached houses in generous plots with room to back onto, the easiest furniture drops in the town
Ashlandsstone through-terraces near the station with one front door and no rear access

If your street isn't listed it's almost certainly still covered, Ilkley and the surrounding LS29 postcodes are all inside our normal working area.

Common Ilkley runs

Bradford → Ilkleyfifteen miles by the A650 to Shipley, the A6038 over Hollins Hill and the A65 through Menston, 35 to 45 minutes
Leeds or Guiseley retail park → Ilkleybought at a shed down the valley, loaded there and carried into the room, same day where the slot allows
Ilkley villa → town-centre apartmentdownsizing furniture, where what suited a Middleton drawing room rarely fits a flat

What it costs

What sets the price here is the size of the piece and whether it has to be walked up a long drive and turned on a villa staircase. There's no travel surcharge for coming to Ilkley from Bradford, and you get the price before we set off, not after. See how we quote for the full breakdown.

Frequently asked questions: furniture & large item transport in Ilkley

Is it really fifteen miles from Bradford? My phone says twelve.

The short line runs over single-track moor lanes with passing places and no room for a long-wheelbase van carrying furniture. The realistic route is fifteen miles: A650 to Shipley, A6038 over Hollins Hill, then the A65 through Menston and Burley. It takes 35 to 45 minutes and there is no travel surcharge either way.

Will a three-door wardrobe get up an Ilkley villa staircase?

Sometimes, and the honest answer depends on the turn above the first landing rather than on the front door. Measure the narrowest point of the flight and the ceiling height at the turn, and send a photo up the stairs. If it will not go assembled, a flat-packed one will, and we carry the boxes up instead.

Can you take the old table away when you bring the new one?

Yes, on the same visit if you want it gone. The old piece comes out while the new one goes in, which matters in an Ashlands terrace where one front door is all there is. We can run it to a relative or a charity shop instead. What we do not do is clear whole houses or garages.