Hilly Ridge House is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House. 5 related planning applications.
Hilly Ridge House
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-finial-mist
- 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
- Hilly Ridge House, Grosvenor Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 288 359
- Coordinates
- 53.81909, -1.56251
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Hilly Ridge House is a house dating from 1839, with alterations in the 20th century, built for Joseph Matthew. It is constructed of coursed stone with a slate hipped roof. The house has two storeys and three windows. A central stone doorway is flanked by pilasters and topped with an entablature. The windows are sash windows with glazing bars, having plain sills and lintels, and a continuous sill band at the first floor level. Bracketed eaves and large square stacks are found behind the ridge. A single-storey range was added in the 20th century to the left side. The interior has not been inspected. Joseph Matthew, a brass founder and axle maker, was the original occupant; his works were located in Little Neville Street. The house is now the residence of the Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University.
Local climate
Hilly Ridge 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 14 transactions since 2005
- Related listed building consents — 5 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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