Description

LEEDS

SE23NE NORTH GRANGE MOUNT, Headingley
714-1/6/793 (East side)
05/08/76 North Hill House

II

House. 1846, altered 1881. For William Walker. Ashlar facade,
coursed squared gritstone side walls, slate roof. Gothic
Revival style. 2 storeys with basement, 3 bays, symmetrical
facade, square plan.
Central projecting doorway with moulded 4-centred arch,
pilasters rising to pinnacles with battlements between and
carved panel over door arch. Large 5-light traceried bay
windows to ground and first floors, string course and panelled
frieze at 1st-floor level. The 1st-floor window centre is
single light, a narrow gablet above it is flanked by an
embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Tall octagonal
crenellated chimney stacks to left and right, on outside
walls. Left return: a 2-light basement window below string
course, asymmetrical windows with hoodmoulds.
INTERIOR: not inspected at survey but original features
reputed to include a principal ground-floor room with
pointed-arch arcaded frieze containing shields and ogee inner
arches to windows. The hall has a similar frieze and
crenellated cornices over 4-centred arch doorways. Panelled
billiard room designed by SE Smith for J Wilkinson in 1881.
Described as the most individual design in the first group of
Headingley villas (Linstrum p.108).
(Linstrum, D: West Yorkshire Architects and Architecture:
London: 1978-: 108, 384).

Listing NGR: SE2856536145

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26656053

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 1: The City of London: City of London v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)