North Hill House

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