Hopewell House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. House, office. 1 related planning application.
Hopewell House
- WRENN ID
- night-tracery-thrush
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leeds
- Constituency
- Leeds Central and Headingley MP: Alex Sobel (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- Hopewell House, 173, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 3AR
- OS grid reference
- SE 297 345
- Coordinates
- 53.80607, -1.55029
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hopewell House is a house, now used as an office, built in 1847 and converted in the 20th century. It was constructed for Henry Littlewood. The building features red brick in Flemish bond, with stone details and a rendered basement, topped with a slate roof. It has two storeys over a basement and three first-floor windows. The central entrance consists of a four-panel door with an overlight, framed by a stone surround supported by Tuscan three-quarter columns, with an entablature, cornice, and a blocking course that continues as a band on the first floor. The windows are tall four-pane sashes with slightly segmental rubbed brick arches and a rendered apron below. The first floor has smaller four-pane sashes. The building has paired gutter brackets and end stacks that are positioned forward of the ridge. The interior has not been inspected. Hopewell House was built on land owned by John Hebblethwaite, a merchant from Ridge House, which has since been demolished. His great nephew, John Hillary, initiated the development of houses in the area. Henry Littlewood was a coach proprietor in Briggate, and by 1861, the house was occupied by Henry Pritchard, a flax merchant.
Local climate
Hopewell 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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