1-8, MOUNT ROYD BD8

The terrace at 1-8 Mount Royd, Manningham, dates from approximately 1863-64 and was designed by Lockwood and Mawson. It is a group of paired, high Victorian town houses with distinctive Gothic detailing. Situated on a private road off Manningham Lane, the terrace retains its private gardens opposite. The buildings are three storeys high, with a basement and attics, constructed of sandstone "brick" with ashlar dressings. Each pair of houses has end breaks featuring steep barge-boarded gables. These gables contain round-headed French windows that open onto roofs of two-story canted bays, which have arched lights and pierced quatrefoil parapets. The upper floors feature bargeboard gable semi-dormers on the second floor and round-headed French casements on the first floor, which open onto ornate cast iron balconies – those of Nos 1 and 2, and Nos 7 and 8, are decorated with a fleur-de-lis pattern. Pairs 1 and 2, and 7 and 8, also incorporate triangular arched windows. Narrow, round-headed windows illuminate the entrance halls, and round arched doorways are present on the ground floor. Ornate cast iron area railings extend up to the doorways. Central to the elevations of Nos 1 and 2, and Nos 7 and 8, a gabletted buttress rises from the basement to the first floor.