Headingley Hill, Hyde Park and Woodhouse Moor
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Headingley Hill with Hyde Park and Woodhouse Moor are a place of special character and historic interest. This appraisal and management plan sets out the features that contribute to its distinctiveness and identifies opportunities for its protection and Headingley Hill, Hyde Park and Woodhouse Moor Draft for consultation Comments are welcome by 18th April 2011. Please see final page for contact details 1 Summary of Special !" Hyde Park and Woodhouse Cliff !" In this respect boundary treatments were more densely developed with and outbuildings also contribute to Interest a variety of house types but with the character and must be retained relatively long front gardens which and enhanced. Headingley Hill, together with Hyde have allowed mature trees to grow Park and Woodhouse Cliff became the and green the street scene. !" Consideration should be given to premier suburb in Leeds for successful Article 4(2) Direction for targeted business families escaping from the !" There are 51 listed buildings and elements of the townscape where smoke of the city centre from 1830 monuments in the area but many there are threats to the survival of onwards, initially in stone villas in large more positive buildings which all architectural detailing that is an plots on both sides of Headingley Lane contribute to the special character essential part of the character of the (see photograph 1) and on Woodhouse of the area both to the overall area. 1. Headingley Lane Cliff. streetscape and to high levels of architectural detailing. !" Similarly, the character of the public Development later in the 19th century realm whether within the streetscape took place off new cul-de-sac service !" The landmark buildings in the area or green spaces is important roads leading towards Woodhouse include St. Augustine’s Church with including paving materials, street Ridge (see photograph 2) and between its 186ft tower, Hinsley Hall with its furniture, lighting, signage and shop Headingley Lane and Woodhouse Moor conical tower, Devonshire Hall and fronts and forecourts. where terraced housing predominated. the Crescent at Hyde Park Corner. The two adjoining green spaces of !" Advertisements should also respect Woodhouse Ridge and Woodhouse !" The area is bounded to the north by the streetscape and special character Moor, which were originally common the greenspace of Woodhouse of the area (see photograph 3). land, were acquired by the then Leeds Ridge which descends steeply into Corporation and laid out as public parks the Meanwood Valley and to the !" Trees are particularly important in to serve the expanding residential area. south-east by Woodhouse Moor the mature landscape of the area which was the first public park in and need positive management both Key Characteristics Leeds. in the public and private green 2. Woodhouse Ridge spaces. Key Issues and Opportunities !" Headingley Hill, despite 20th century infill, is still characterised by large stone villas in relatively large plots !" Infill and adjoining developments set well back from the service roads need to respect the scale and which are bounded by stone proportions of existing buildings and boundary walls and outbuildings. the spaces between them. Many streets have stone flags and kerbs too. The large plots contain !" Alterations and extensions must also many trees which give a mature b e s e n s i t i v e t o m a t e r i a l s , landscape setting to the buildings. fenestration and other architectural details of the original building which add to the character of the area. 3. Advertisements 2 development of Headingley Hill relationship with the Hyde Park 4. In addition, the green corridor Proposed Changes to and Woodhouse Cliff. area in particular. between Woodhouse Moor and the Conservation Area Woodhouse Ridge has been 2. Secondly, the inclusion of the 3. This relationship with the Hyde added to link the two major whole of Woodhouse Moor, not Park area has been reinforced greenspaces. Headingley Hill, to the north of just Little Moor, the ‘Birdcage’ with the inclusion of all the Headingley Lane, including Woodhouse and a small area around Hyde properties on Hyde Park Road 5. Finally, the Conservation Area has Cliff and Regents Park, was originally Park Corner which fall within the facing the Moor providing a link been extended further down designated as a Conservation Area on existing Conservation Area. with the Moorlands Conservation Brudenell Road as far as the th 14 March 1973. Woodhouse Moor became the Area and completing the built Hyde Park Picture House to first municipal park in Leeds in frame to the Moor. include an attractive p a r a d e It was subsequently amalgamated into the 1870s and has a strong of shops and a fine terrace of the wider Headingley Conservation Area houses. th with some minor modifications on 5 November 1980. Headingley Hill and Hyde Park On 15th February 1984 it was Conservation Area significantly extended to include Hyde Proposed Conservation Area Park Corner, with the terraced houses around St. Augustine’s Church and Little Existing Conservation Areas Moor, and the area between Headingley Lane and Victoria Road, which had the same characteristics of ‘mature trees, stone buildings and stone boundary walls’ as the existing Conservation Area to the north of Headingley Lane. On 13th August 2010 the following s i g n i f i c a n t e x t e n s i o n s t o t h e Conservation Area were approved in principle by the Planning Board, subject to consultation with residents and other interested parties. 1. F i r s t l y , t h e I n c l u s i o n o f Woodhouse Ridge on the northern boundary of Headingley Hill and Woodhouse Cliff. This greenspace has been added to the Conservation Area as its use as a public park was historically Ordinance Survey Map showing the existing conservation area in blue and the proposed linked to the residential conservation area in red. 3 Location and Content Location and Setting Woodhouse Ridge Headingley Hill and Hyde Park are located just a mile and a half to the north west of the centre of Leeds. Woodhouse Lane and then Headingley Headingley Hill Lane (A660) form the main connecting Woodhouse road from the city centre through the Cliff area to Headingley centre and Otley Geological Map of Headingley beyond. Conservation Area sandstone (yellow) millstone grit (green) Headingley Hill originally lay in the Headingley cum Burley Township, just Meanwood outside the township of Leeds, and Hyde Park Valley became the first ‘suburb’ of Leeds in the 1830s. The first horse drawn omnibus service to Leeds started in 1838 and the No1 bus still uses the route. Woodhouse Moor The whole area lies on a ridge between the Meanwood valley to the north and Aire Valley the Kirkstall valley to the south. The escarpment to the north, containing Woodhouse Ridge, is relatively steep, Topology Map of Headingley Con- but the slope to the Kirkstall valley is Aerial Map servation Area more gentle, with its southerly aspect particularly attractive for residential Leeds but fortunately Headingley Hill Hill, Woodhouse Cliff and much of The development. and Woodhouse Cliff have no through Ridge are on beds of flagstone which routes, because of the Meanwood valley were quarried in the Woodhouse area General character and plan form escarpment, and the resulting cul-de- (Quarry Bank School) and used for local Headingley sacs retain much of their original building. Despite the intensive development of character. the later 19th century and early 20th There was one small sandstone quarry century, attractive views are still to be G e o l o g y , t o p o g r a p h y a n d off Grosvenor Road (now Dagmar seen in both directions, particularly from landscape setting Wood). The area south of Headingley Woodhouse Moor. Lane is predominantly shales with a coal Leeds City Geologically, the whole area is underlain seam (Better Bed Coal) running along Centre Headingley Lane suffers from heavy by Lower Coal Measures but Headingley Hyde Park Road to Hyde Park Corner. traffic as a major commuter route into Headingley in it is wider setting 4 In 1673, the Brudenells sold off 200 Historic Development acres of land between Headingley village centre and Woodhouse Moor, the Introduction area now known as Headingley Hill and Hyde Park, to John Walker. Prior to the middle of the 19th century Hyde Park Corner Hyde Park and Headingley Hill did not When John Walker’s descendant Mary have an identity of their own. They were simply part of the wider Headingley Bainbrigge died in 1805, the estate was Manor, later the Headingley cum Burley split up and the land was progressively Township. Headingley remained a sold off in large building plots from the s e p a r a t e ‘ o u t - t o w n s h i p ’ u n t i l 1820’s onwards, initially on sites incorporated into Leeds in 1836 as a flanking Headingley Lane which formed ward under the Municipal Reform Act. part of the Leeds-Otley turnpike after 1754. Woodhouse Moor as its name implies was simply an area of uncultivated Woodhouse Ridge to the north-east and common land on the edge of the Woodhouse Moor to the south-east both manor/township of Leeds while remained open areas of common land. Woodhouse Ridge was another area of Woodhouse Ridge includes an area of common land on the edge of the ancient woodland between Cardboard John Tuke Common Land Extract 1781 Meanwood valley which straddled both Hill and Bedford Fields known now as townships (see John Tuke’s map right).