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Rosemount villa was built in 1849 for the successful Bradford merchant,
John Douglas.
At the end of Clifton Villas and at the end of a long driveway is Rose
Mount, a very large Tudor style mansion built in 1849-51 for John
Douglas to the design of Andrews and Delauney. This was the first house
to have been built on this cul-de-sac and the rest of the houses were
built on the former gardens of Rose Mount. The building was last used as
the T F Davis Professional Development Centre by its present owners,
Bradford Council who abandoned this use some time ago and the building
stands vacant and boarded up. Despite its long term redundancy, the
sprawling complex is in a good condition, with its diminished slate
roofs in tact and the corniced stone chimneys retaining their full
height. The mansion has various Dutch gables and has ashlar quoined
angles and a dripmould between ground and first floors. The asymmetrical
front elevation has two and three storey Dutch gables with cruciform
mullion windows at first floor.
To the east of the original villa, the single storey addition has a
canted bay window, the glazing of which forms a leaded and stained glass
picture, which presumably depicts the Baltic Sea and the skyline of
Riga.
Notes:
• The Douglas family had trading links in the Baltic states.
• Robert and James
Douglas were merchants in Bradford at this time.
• On 2 May
1833 the partnership between Robert Milligan, Robert Monies and John
Douglas trading as Monies, Douglas & Co., linen and woollen drapers, was
dissolved by mutual consent as regards John Douglas, the remaining two
partners continuing the business. On 18 January 1851 the partnership
between Robert Milligan, Henry Forbes, Nathaniel Briggs and John
Venimore Godwin trading as Milligan, Forbes & Co, was dissolved by
mutual consent as regards John Venimore Godwin.
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