Headingley Lane to Woodhouse Cliff

 

Rose Court

Returning to the south end of Grosvenor Road, having a good walk around Headingley Hill to photograph its listed buildings as best as I could, I arrived at the back of Nos. 42 and 44 Headingley Lane Lane (c.1840), where the rear elevation of this pair of semi-detached houses is made of brick and, diverting down the back lane, I noted that the rear of Nos. 38 and 40 (c.1840) is built with yellowish sandstone from the Elland Flags. 

 

The rear elevations of Nos. 38-44 Headingley Lane

The side and front elevations of these substantial double fronted houses, however, are built with large blocks of gritstone ashlar that are most likely to have been quarried from the Rough Rock, which I had encountered in very many of the listed buildings seen on my walk to date. 

 

The front elevations of Nos. 38-44 Headingley Lane

On the south side of Headingley Lane is Rose Court (c.1842), which Historic England (HE) suggest may have been designed by John Clark, the architect and speculative developer who was responsible for several houses built at Headingley Hill, and it may have been built for the banker George Smith and was later owned by Leeds High School for Girls from 1912 until they vacated the premises in 2008. 

 

Rose Court and its gate piers

After taking a few general record photos of the north elevation to show the porte cochère on 4 Tuscan columns and the large rusticated gritstone gate piers, which are separately Grade II listed, I continued along Headingley Lane to the junction with Victoria Road. 

 

Nos. 3 to 7 Victoria Road

Nos. 3 to 7 Victoria Road (c.1842) are a short terrace of houses, built with gritstone ashlar with Welsh slate roofs that appear on the 1851 Ordnance Survey map in an essentially rural area, which the 1908 edition shows was subsequently developed with terraced housing to form the Hyde Park district of Leeds. 

 

A detail of the 1851 OS map

 

Although it doesn't appear on the 1851 OS map - surveyed 5 years after Rose Court was built - at the south-east corner of its grounds there is a gritstone ashlar built lodge that is marked on the 1895 edition, but its very simple style doesn't give many clues to its date. 

 

The former lodge to Rose Court

 

Nos. 27 and 29 (c.1840) are a pair of substantial gritstone semi-detached houses opposite the south entrance to Rose Court, which HE suggest could also be also designed by John Clark and describe them as being of a similar style - which I presume refers to the recessed entrance with columns in antis. 

 

Nos. 27 and 29 Victoria Road

Continuing along Victoria Road, the Bethel First United Church of Jesus Christ (1886) was the next building on my Photo Challenge. According to the My Methodist Church website, the architect was Mr W.S. Braithwaite of South Parade in Leeds.

 

The Bethel First United Church of Jesus Christ

 

Taking a few photos from a distance to get the tall spire in view, I didn't take much notice of the sandstones that have been used in construction and on my way to the brick built No. 63 Victoria Road (1838), which has no interest to this Language of Stone Blog, the unlisted lodge to the now demolished Morley House caught my eye. 

 

The former lodge to Morley House

On my way back to to the junction of Victoria Road with Headingley Lane, I stopped briefly to take a quick look at the door surround of the Bethel First United Church, where the stone used for the tracery looks quite different to the Elland Flags walling and the Rough Rock dressings. 

 

The door surround of the Bethel First United Church

The Church of St. Augustine at Wrangthorn on Hyde Park Road (1871), by James Barlow Fraser, was not part of my Photo Challenge but I stopped to take a general record photo that shows its fine tower and another combination of Elland Flags for walling and Rough Rock for the dresssings. 

 

The tower at St. Augustine's church

 

The bronze statue of Robert Peel (1852) by William Behnes is described by HE as being set on a pink granite pedestal with a stepped grey granite base, but I didn't get close enough to see what granites have been used and assume that the pink granite is from Peterhead. 

 

The Robert Peel monument

 

Moving on to the Post Office and Hyde Park Delivery Office (1906) on Woodhouse Street, which is designed in the Baroque Revival style, the splay is largely built with medium grained sandstone that looks more like Bolton Woods sandstone or Huddersfield stone than the Elland flags or Rough Rock that I had seen on my walk, but I only took photos from a distance. 

 

The Hyde Park post office and delivery office

 

I concluded my Photo Challenge and a walk of nearly 10 km at the early C19 Nos. 1 and 2 Woodhouse Cliff, where yellowish sandstone from the Elland Flags is once again the principal building stone, alhough I could only get a partial view of the terrace over a substantial garden wall.

Nos. 1 and 2 Woodhouse Cliff