Virginia House and Pump is a Grade II listed building in the Leeds local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 August 1976. House.
Virginia House and Pump
- WRENN ID
- guardian-rubblework-blackthorn
- 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
- Virginia House and Pump, 2, North Grange Road
- OS grid reference
- SE 285 357
- Coordinates
- 53.81737, -1.56858
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Virginia House and pump is a house and pump located on North Grange Road in Headingley, dating from the early 19th century with later 19th-century additions. The main facades are built of ashlar, while the rear and later walls are made of coursed squared gritstone. The building features a slate hipped roof and includes a cast-iron and wooden pump.
The house is two storeys high and has a symmetrical arrangement of windows on the first floor, with two windows flanking a central bay that is set back on both the left and right sides. There is an off-centre single-storey porch supported by Doric pillars, with narrow side windows. To the left, there is a shallow square bay window with three lights, and to the right, a former sash window with a plain lintel. The first floor has similar windows with canopied plate-glass sashes and a sill band. The recessed bay features a 16-pane sash window on the first floor. The building has a moulded eaves cornice and a shallow blocking course, with large corniced stacks located at the rear of the ridge on both sides.
On the right return, there is a bay window similar to the one at the front, with plain sashes and later alterations to the right. The rear of the house includes what is likely the original three-storey, three-bay wing with four-pane sashes in stone surrounds. The pump is located in a wooden casing at the centre, flanked by an infill block with recessed double doors below a fluted projecting four-light curved bay window. To the left, there is a two-storey canted bay window, and a window altered to serve as a fire escape is situated far left. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Virginia House and Pump 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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