North Hill House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House. 2 related planning applications.
North Hill House
- WRENN ID
- proud-dormer-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 August 1976
- Type
- House
- Address
- North Hill House, North Grange Mount, LS6 2ES
- OS grid reference
- SE 285 361
- Coordinates
- 53.82082, -1.56758
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
North Hill House is a house built in 1846 and altered in 1881 for William Walker. It features an ashlar facade with coursed squared gritstone side walls and a slate roof, designed in the Gothic Revival style. The building is two storeys tall with a basement and has a symmetrical facade with three bays and a square plan.
The central doorway projects and has a moulded four-centred arch, with pilasters that rise to pinnacles and battlements above, along with a carved panel over the door arch. There are large five-light traceried bay windows on both the ground and first floors, and a string course with a panelled frieze at the first-floor level. The centre of the first-floor window is a single light, topped with a narrow gablet and flanked by an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Tall octagonal crenellated chimney stacks are located on the left and right sides of the building.
On the left return, there is a two-light basement window below the string course, and asymmetrical windows with hoodmoulds. The interior has not been inspected during the survey, but original features are said to include a principal ground-floor room with a pointed-arch arcaded frieze that contains shields and ogee inner arches to the windows. The hall features a similar frieze and crenellated cornices over four-centred arch doorways. Additionally, there is a panelled billiard room designed by S.E. Smith for J. Wilkinson in 1881. North Hill House is noted as the most individual design in the first group of Headingley villas.
Local climate
North Hill House receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 41 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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