Meanwood - Geography and Buildings

Geography and Buildings

The 1841 census listed 144 houses, including three large ones, Carr House (Carr Manor), Meanwood Hall and Whalley House (now demolished). Most properties were stone cottages, now gone, with the exception of a few houses on Monkbridge Road. Hustler's Row remains as a group of 1850 stone cottages named after John Husler, a quarry owner.

There is a shopping centre with a Waitrose Food & Home store on Green Road, the site of a tannery which is believed to date from 1700. To the west along the road towards Meanwood Park are some houses built for tannery workers and the Meanwood Institute, built about 1820, but opened as the Institute in 1885, a Grade II listed building.

There are a number of 19th-century industrial buildings in Meanwood Valley along the Meanwood Beck, and 19th-century terraced housing on the valley side leading to Headingley, Weetwood and Woodhouse, along with an area of woodland known locally as The Ridge.

New estates have been built with grand, suburban housing, the Woodleas, the Stonegates and the Bowoods. 20th-century council housing mixed with open space forms the opposite side of the valley leading up to Scott Hall.

It is also home to Meanwood Valley Urban Farm.

Sugarwell Court on the Meanwood Road, is the former Cliff Tannery, an 1866 Grade II listed building converted into a university hall of residence. Nearby is a former Baptist school, a brick Grade II listed building dating from about 1886.