Buslingthorpe Conservation Area

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 01 Mar, 2010 12:11 am

Went down Buslingthorpe Vale today. A few brambles but otherwise only tyres to get in the way. Just before the bridge there's some inpressive garden gate posts bu the 1908 map doesn't show a house or anything that would merit such stonework.

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 03 Apr, 2010 12:18 pm

BJF wrote: BJF wrote: This is the old bulding (Barn?) up the track, off Buslingthorpr lane, which goes on up Sugarwell Hill As BJF and as Ravey D suggests this looks like a barn and looks like the one at Seacroft Grange.Passing through Otley there's an old farmhouse (near the town centre you pass when you park in the big car parks) blue placqued in which there's a similar "high arch" (stoned up now but you can see it) to take the hay for the horses through.So after a dumb moment (stretching over many weeks) it's now obvious that the Scott Hall quarries, will have needed a team of horses to cart all that stone to it's various destinations and that this barn housed the horses and the large arch accomodates the incoming hay supplies.So the building is a fine monument to the old quarries of Leeds and should be immediately listed!!!!

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Sat 01 May, 2010 11:47 am

Alf Mattison took many pictures of old leeds and illustrated the old history - romance of old Leeds.One of his evocative pictures can be found by a search on Leodis key word "Quarry", pic 71.It looks down on a packed industrial Buslingthorpe from the quarry above, Nice shot.

Leodian · Post by **Leodian** » Sun 20 Jun, 2010 7:09 pm

Apologies if it is already mentioned elsewhere in the Secret Leeds website (it is not in this thread) but the name Buslingthorpe contains half the letters of the alphabet with no repetition. I have wondered if that was chance or deliberate?

Wool · Post by **Wool** » Wed 23 Jun, 2010 3:50 pm

The building described as Scott Hall on page 2 of this thread was advertised for sale in last Friday's Evening Post. The agent's ( William H Brown's) website describes it as having suffered years of neglect and some fire damage. A bargain, then, at "offers in excess of £640,000"!

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Thu 24 Jun, 2010 2:32 am

Wool wrote: The building described as Scott Hall on page 2 of this thread was advertised for sale in last Friday's Evening Post. The agent's ( William H Brown's) website describes it as having suffered years of neglect and some fire damage. A bargain, then, at "offers in excess of £640,000"! I walked the beck at Buslingthorpe tonight and passed the Georgian House on the lower side or the west side.It was called "Scott Hall Farm" on signs that warned "Dogs are loose".£640,000?? Let's all chip in and make it into Secret Leeds Headquarters??

The Parksider · Post by **The Parksider** » Thu 24 Jun, 2010 10:45 am

Wool wrote: The building described as Scott Hall on page 2 of this thread was advertised for sale in last Friday's Evening Post. The agent's ( William H Brown's) website describes it as having suffered years of neglect and some fire damage. A bargain, then, at "offers in excess of £640,000"! I've clicked around their website and can't bring it up. It's of no matter to me at all, but people who put websites out there to sell should really make sure it's easy for customers, to find stuff, not have to fight the thing!If I was rich and looking for a secluded georgian property a walk from the city of leeds then maybe they'd have missed out on half a million

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Thu 24 Jun, 2010 8:48 pm

I suspect that the £640,000 asking price refers more to the value of the land should you choose to build 'executive' homes on there after pulling down the existing buildings. After a mysterious and completely unforeseen fire if necessary

ClaphamCommoner · Post by **ClaphamCommoner** » Sun 14 Nov, 2010 6:17 pm

Slightly outside the Buslingthorpe CA, I guess, but here goes anyway!Does anyone know when Ridge Road (just off Meanwood Road, opposite the Primrose pub) was demolished, along with all the streets that led off it, like Evesham Terrace, Forres Street, Viscount Terrace, Viscount Place, Viscount Street and the Speedwells (Place, St, Ave, Row, View, Grove and Road)? In the early-mid 70s, a friend of mine lived at 60 Ridge Road, one of only two houses remaining in Ridge Road by then, the other being (I think) an old vicarage though, strictly speaking, I think that's in Wharfedale Avenue, as access to it appears to be from there. These two houses remain today, and have been the only two houses in Ridge Road since I started going there in 1974. Then, as now, the road was completely overgrown with shrubbery and trees growing in the small space between Ridge Road and Meanwood Road where Evesham Terrace, Forres Street and the Viscounts had been. It feels like a country lane, and it's hard to believe Meanwood Road is only a few yards away. On the other (south-western) side of Ridge Road, there was and is a steep grass and bracken bank between the road and the track that leads up onto Woodhouse Ridge. The roadway itself has always been muddy and grassy but, when I last looked at it in the spring, I noticed that in fact beneath the mud you can still see the original stone setts of the roadway, and beneath the undergrowth are remains of the pavement and kerb. Very ghostly!And yet, despite Ridge Road having been so overgrown, isolated and rural-feeling in 1974 (it's been partially cleared up and thinned out now so it appears less isolated and nearer to Meanwood Road than it did in the 70s), at least some of the streets off it were still there in 1965 (I have found photos of some Viscounts and Speedwells on Leodis) and the rest of Ridge Road was still there, though derelict, in 1968. (Albert Street and Mosely St, at the bottom of Ridge Rd, near the junction with Meanwood Rd, seem to have gone by 1962.) However, a friend recalls another friend of ours having lived in Ridge Road sometime in the early 70s (1971-3) which suggests not all Ridge Rd was demolished in the late 60s. I am doing some research into the area and would really love to know if anyone can confirm when Ridge Road (except the two remaining detached houses) was demolished, and when all the short little side streets (Viscounts, Evesham, Forres, Speedwells, etc) went. Also!!! One of the illustrated maps on the Woodhouse Ridge nature trail shows a house on the Ridge called Strawberry Hall. Does anyone know where this was?Thanks very much for any help you can give. You all seem to have great memories, so I'm counting on you!

Cardiarms · Post by **Cardiarms** » Mon 23 May, 2011 11:24 pm

Springhill Tavern as was. The path down to the left of it can still be walked with some difficulty.http://www.leodis.net/display.aspx?reso ... SPLAY=FULL