Royds Mount

Royds Mount is a mid-19th century building constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and a pitched slate roof. It features coped gables on kneelers and stands two storeys tall with attics. The entrance front displays three ranges of windows, all grouped trefoil-headed sashes, separated by detached colonnettes adorned with delicate foliage capitals. The first-floor windows are fitted with hoodmoulds that have some figurative label stops.

The south range, which is gabled, includes a two-storey canted bay with gabled sides and grotesque heads at the junctions of the gables. It has a moulded cornice above the ground floor and blind quatrefoil panelling between the stories. The first-floor windows are trefoil-headed, while the ground floor windows are two-centred with cusps. Other windows on the building are also two-centred with cusps, with two-light and three-light configurations in the centre and north ranges, and a five-light window in the oblong bay on the ground floor of the north range.

The gabled porch features finely carved grotesque animals at the corners and three trefoil-headed arches with hoodmoulds and figurative label stops, supported by columns with different, finely carved capitals. The double doors are adorned with ornamental iron hinges and stained glass panels, set within a moulded trefoiled arch.

The south front has an ashlar verandah with four arched bays, supported by clustered columns with foliate capitals that take moulded cusped two-centred arches with pierced quatrefoils in the spandrels. The balustrade is made of pierced quatrefoils. To the west, there is a slightly projecting gabled bay with a canted ground floor bay and a crenellated parapet. The first-floor window features a highly carved oriel with a hipped and crocketed stone roof, and both windows have two-centred arched lights with cusps, supported by colonnettes with delicate foliage capitals. Elaborately moulded rainwater heads and spirally fluted downpipes are fixed to the wall by ornamental brackets.