Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Road and Right of Way, Ridgeway House
GATES, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO ROAD AND RIGHT OF WAY, RIDGEWAY HOUSE, GROSVENOR ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Road and Right of Way, Ridgeway House
- Statutory Address:
- GATES, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO ROAD AND RIGHT OF WAY, RIDGEWAY HOUSE, GROSVENOR ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1256130
- Date first listed:
- 11-Sept-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Gates, Gate Piers and Boundary Walls to Road and Right of Way, Ridgeway House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATES, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO ROAD AND RIGHT OF WAY, RIDGEWAY HOUSE, GROSVENOR ROAD
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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- GATES, GATE PIERS AND BOUNDARY WALLS TO ROAD AND RIGHT OF WAY, RIDGEWAY HOUSE, GROSVENOR ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Leeds (Metropolitan Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SE 28836 35911
Details
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 465251
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Treen, C, The Process of Suburban Development in North Leeds 1870-1914, (1982), 158-209
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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