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Latitude: 53.8208 / 53°49'14"N
Longitude: -1.5676 / 1°34'3"W
OS Eastings: 428565
OS Northings: 436145
OS Grid: SE285361
Mapcode National: GBR BCB.W4
Mapcode Global: WHC9C.W7Q7
Plus Code: 9C5WRCCJ+8X
Entry Name: North Hill House
Listing Date: 5 August 1976
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1375245
English Heritage Legacy ID: 466127
ID on this website: 101375245
Location: Headingley Hill, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS6
County: Leeds
Electoral Ward/Division: Headingley
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Leeds
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Headingley St Michael
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: House Gothic Revival
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
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