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LEEDS

SE2835NE GROSVENOR MOUNT, Headingley 714-1/65/746 (South side) 05/08/76 No.2 Grosvenor House with terrace walls (Formerly Listed as: GROSVENOR MOUNT, Headingley (South side) No.2 Grosvenor House, including wall immediately to W along Grosvenor Road)

GV II

House, now offices, and terrace wall. Mid C19. Converted and restored c1993. Ashlar, slate hipped roof. 2 storeys with basement, 3 windows. Classical style with Greek motifs. S front: central rusticated doorway with porch, the entablature supported on fluted columns with carved scrolls and acanthus to capitals. Tall casement windows, (boarded), in moulded and rusticated architraves with cornice hoods on brackets; 1st floor plain with iron balconettes and aprons with Greek key pattern in relief. Rusticated angle pilasters to 1st-floor level, string course, stone console brackets to eaves. Left return: 4 windows wide, large 4-light bay window with pulvinated frieze and cornice to ground floor. Right return: basement storey and raised ground floor with stone balcony on carved console brackets far left; ironwork as front. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: terrace wall and steps on S side: links to the roadside boundary wall, Grosvenor Road (qv) and extends approx 20m to the SE corner of the house. Coursed stone with ashlar, balustrade repaired late C20; a flight of stone steps with low flanking walls and square ashlar terminals at the W end. The house was built on the edge of a sandstone quarry shown on the 1850 OS map; it is marked as a vicarage on a later edition.



Listing NGR: SE2885235751

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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)