History

Built from circa 1850, design probably by Alexander Roos, architect to Bute Estate.

Exterior

Terrace of 14 three storey houses, now offices. Red brick with painted stucco dressings. End houses project slightly. Modillion cornice and parapet. Second floor windows segmental headed and stuccoed with keystones. Generally 4-pane sash glazing. On first floor stuccoed shouldered window architraves with keystones; generally 4-pane sash glazing. Originally with iron railed balconies to first floor which now remain only in nos 11 and 16. Stucco bnd over ground floor. Ground floor openings off-set from openings above. Wide ground floor windows with quoins and keystones. Round-headed stuccoed doorways with stuccoed keystones, pilasters, spandrels and cornices. Doorways to north except in no 11 which has a doorway to left hand (south). Ground floor of No 24 faced in Portland stone

Reasons for Listing

The houses in Windsor Place are the best preserved mid-C19 houses in Cardiff centre

External Links

• Cadwr Listing
• Wikidata Q29491754

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)