Cote Royd

Cote Royd is a large house dating to 1874, built for Wright Mellor, the first Mayor of Huddersfield, and later the first Alderman. It is constructed of rock-faced stone with ashlar dressings and a pitched fishscale slate roof. The roof has coped gables on cut kneelers and ball finials. The house is two storeys and has attics. The front elevation is composed of three ranges. It features chamfered mullioned sash windows with hoodmoulds; the ground floor windows are three-light, while those on the first floor are two-light, except for a pointed arched window with bar tracery and a hoodmould in the gable end of the south range. The north end of the ground floor projects forward, surmounted by a foliate frieze and parapet that extends around the porch. The porch has a moulded two-centred arch with a hoodmould and figurative label stops and is accessed by two steps with a pointed arched parapet leading to octagonal piers with shallow caps. The garden front has three gables, two large ones each with a two-light window containing bar tracery and hoodmoulds, and a smaller one between. The east bay incorporates a single-storey semi-circular bay featuring a foliage cornice and a parapet ornamented with blind quatrefoils. The centre bay has a canted first-floor window with a hipped stone roof. The west bay features a two-storey canted bay with a crenellated parapet, and blind tracery between the storeys. A first-floor oriel window is located at the rear, also with a crenellated parapet.