The Lodges of Headingley
The lodges of Headingley are the small houses at the gates of the grounds of large villas. Some forty lodges were built in and around Headingley throughout Queen Victoria’s reign. They were built encircling Headingley village, and along the great thoroughfares of Headingley Lane, Otley Road and Weetwood Lane, from Woodhouse Moor in the south up to the Ring Road in the north. Three-quarters remain.
As Eveleigh Bradford notes, the lodges “sit at the interface between public and private property, symbols of wealth, seclusion and of course exclusion.”
For information on the lodges, either click on the images in the gallery above, or click on the area headings in the catalogue below.
Photographs are by kind permission of Jerry Hardman-Jones (JHJ), Helen Pickering (HP), Richard Tyler (RT) and Leeds Library and Information Service (LLIS), whose copyright they remain.
Take a walk to Look around the Lodges, and read a short history of The Gingerbread Genre.
For other galleries of photos of Headingley, go to Galleries.
The Lodges of Headingley
Lodges on Woodhouse Moor
01 North Lodge, 1840, Clarendon Road, for Woodhouse Reservoir
02 South Lodge, 1840, Clarendon Road, for Woodhouse Reservoir; demolished
03 Keeper’s Lodge, c1900, Woodhouse Lane, for Woodhouse Moor
Lodges along Headingley Lane
04 Lodge, c1900, 6 Grosvenor Road, for Grosvenor House
05 Lodge, 1842, 4 Victoria Road, for Rose Court
06 Lodge, early Victorian, Victoria Road, for Morley House; demolished
07 Lodge, early Victorian, 8 Victoria Road, for Longfield House
08 Lodge, 1869, Victoria Road, for Torridon; demolished
09 Lodge, late Victorian, Buckingham Road, for Buckingham Villas
10 Lodge, late Victorian, Buckingham Road, for Buckingham Villas
11 Lodge, 1846, 62 Headingley Lane, for Headingley Castle
12 Lodge, 1866, 70 Headingley Lane, for Headingley Castle
13 Lodge, c1857, 53 Headingley Lane, for Spring Bank
Lodges West of Headingley
14 Lodge, early Victorian, North Lane, for Headingley House and Headingley Lodge, removed to South Parade 1908
15 Lodge, 1888, Kirkstall Lane, for Headingley House; demolished
16 Tower Lodge, 1860s, 214A Kirkstall Lane, for St Ann’s Tower
17 Lodge, early Victorian, Kirkstall Lane, for Batcliffe Wood House; demolished
17A Lodge, 1840, Cardigan Lane, for Zoological & Botanical Gardens; demolished
Lodges East of Headingley
18 Lodge, 1883, Shire Oak Road, for St Michael’s Mount; demolished
19 Lodge, c1855, Wood Lane, for Wheatfields; demolished
20 Lodge, mid-Victorian, Alma Road, for Whinfield
21 Lodge, mid-Victorian, Alma Road, for Moorlands
Lodges in Far Headingley
22 Lodge, c1834, Moor Road, for Moor House; demolished
23 Coachman’s Lodge, c1880, High Close Road, for Moor House; demolished
24 Lodge, mid-Victorian, Moor Road, for Castle Grove; demolished
25 Lodge, c1834, 42 Moor Road, for Moor Grange
Lodges on Otley Road
26 Lodge, early Victorian, 151 Otley Road, for Kirkstall Grange
27 Lodge, 1840, 176 Otley Road, for Weetwood Reservoir
28 Lodge, 1860s, 178 Otley Road, for Weetwood Filter Beds
29 Lodge, 1875, 180 Otley Road, for Spenfield
30 Lodge, late Victorian, 246 Otley Road, for Weetwood Mount
31 Weetwood Hall Lodge, 1887, Otley Road, for Weetwood Hall
32 Weetwood Park Lodge, 1887, Weetwood Lane, for Weetwood Hall
Lodges on Weetwood Lane
33 Lodge, 1902, 89 Weetwood Lane, for Bardon Hill
34 Lodge, 1864, Weetwood Lane, for The Hollies
35 Lodge, 1860, Weetwood Lane, for Bardon Grange
36 Lodge, 1861, off Weetwood Lane, for Weetwood Villa
37 Lodge, 1881, Weetwood Lane, for Quarry Dene
38 Foxhill Cottage, 1861, Weetwood Lane, lodge for Fox Hill
39 Upper Lodge, 1861, Weetwood Lane, for Weetwood Grove; demolished
40 Lower Lodge, 1861, Weetwood Lane, for Weetwood Grove
