265-283 Manningham Lane and including Blenheim Mount 2 Blenheim Road

A terrace of eleven houses, numbers 265 to 283 Manningham Lane, together with number 2 Blenheim Road (Blenheim Mount), was built around 1865, designed by S Jackson. The houses are constructed from ashlar stone, with coursed squared stone to the rear, and have Welsh slate roofs. Each house is two bays wide, with three-bay breaks at the centre and at each end of the terrace. Stone steps with iron railings lead to the entrance of each house; the entrance to number 2 Blenheim Road is on the side. The doorways feature panelled doors with fanlights, set within hollow-moulded, round-arched architraves adorned with foliage and console brackets. Each house has a canted bay window on the ground floor, with sashes, cornices, and blocking courses. The first-floor windows are alternately paired sashes with cambered heads in raised panels, and triple round-arched sashes with corbelled archivolts, all resting on a cill band. The second-floor windows are paired cambered-headed sashes with bracketed cills and archivolts, also linked by a cill band. The building features a dentilled eaves cornice and dentilled corniced stacks situated between the houses on the roof pitch. The central three-bay break has a two-storey bay window flanked on the ground floor by doorways and on the second floor by paired round-arched sashes. The second floor here has paired round-arched sashes flanked by cambered-headed sashes, with a projecting cornice that steps forward over the flanking bays below a balustrade with corner finials. A central pilastered and corniced segmental pediment with a triple-circle motif is featured in the tympanum. The end three-bay breaks incorporate gabled outer bays, each with a two-storey canted bay window. These are complemented by second-floor paired round-arched sashes and an oculus in a corniced gable. Flanking this are narrower projecting bays with a ground-floor doorway, triple round-arched first-floor sashes, and paired cambered-headed second-floor sashes. The rear elevation includes gabled ground-floor ‘sculley’ wings to each house. The rear windows have ashlar cills and lintels, and many retain four-pane sashes. Corniced stacks are set within the rear roof pitch. The interior of number 7 retains a contemporary open-well staircase, marble fireplaces, and ornate plaster ceilings.