| Description | This formal square is unusual for Bradford, as is the tapering plan with a closed west end, with the corner houses having concave elevations. The square was built and laid out c.1840 for wool merchants' housing. The houses are two storeys high and are built of gritstone that has been coursed in small blocks of ashlar. They have a frieze, eaves cornice and a stone slate shallow mansard roof with attics. The centre and end houses on the north and south sides break forward slightly and have pediments above the cornice, which contain the attic windows. The centre house on the west end is similar. The north and south terraces have one window fronts: tripartite arched lights with thin mullions on the first floor, and two lights only on the ground floor. The west end houses, including the ones with concave fronts, have a round headed window above the doorway and paired round headed lights to the ground and first floors. These houses have pilastered tripartite attic dormers with a frieze and cornice capping. All the houses have panelled doors with semi circular radial glazed fanlights, and shaped consoles to the cornice hoods above. |