Description

LEEDS

SE2835NE GROSVENOR ROAD, Headingley
714-1/65/750 (West side)
Gates, gate piers and boundary walls
to road and right of way, Ridgeway
House

GV II

Boundary walls and gateways. c1848. Coursed squared gritstone,
ashlar walling flanking gateway, wrought-iron and wooden
gates. Enclosing and dividing the grounds of Ridgeway House,
Cumberland Road (qv), with main gateway on Grosvenor Road,
archway to ginnel on Cumberland Road, and gateway to grounds
on Cumberland Road.
Overall length approx 400m, composed of the following lengths:
i) walling on the W side of Grosvenor Road between the gates
and railings to Hilly Ridge House (qv) and the entrance to the
right of way to the S; overall length approx 50m, height 2.5m;
the entrance gateway to Ridgeway House comprises outer
gritstone piers with moulded flat capstones, dressed stone
walling with shallow pointed coping, inner square piers in
vermiculated rustication, moulded cornice and ball finials,
spur stones at bases, paired wrought-iron gates with dog bars,
X-braces, leaf finials to bars.
ii) walls flanking the narrow pedestrian right of way through
the grounds of Ridgeway House: overall length approx 100m,
height 3m, rounded coping stones; a single-slab footbridge
crosses the path near the western end.
iii) the walling along the W side of the grounds, overall
length approx 150m, height 3m, from the junction with the
house: an angled wall with the remains of 3 blind/blocked
arches, flat coping, to the entrance to Elmfield (qv). This
length of walling includes the round-arched opening to the
right-of-way and the gate piers and gates into the former
gardens of Ridgeway House. Monolithic piers with modillion
cornice and flat capstones, wooden gates with remains of
L-hinges.
The routeway from Leeds and Woodhouse to hamlets and mills
outside the town is shown on early maps and was protected when
the development of this part of the Revd Richard Fawcett's
estates took place after 1846. The N wall of the pathway forms
a revetment to the house garden which was planted with shrubs
to hide the wall top.
(The Rise of Suburbia (Thompson FML, Ed): Treen, C: The
process of suburban development in North Leeds, 1870-1914:
Leicester UP: 1982-: 158-209).

Listing NGR: SE2883635911

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26547672

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