Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Nos.25-33 (consecutive)
Castle, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commercial
- Date of designation
- 19 May 1975
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48446, -3.17341
- Cadw reference
- 13830
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Forming E side of Windsor Place, to N of City United Reformed Church.
History
Built from circa 1850, design probably by Alexander Roos, architect to Bute Estate.
Exterior
Terrace of 9 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 30, 31 and 32. Stucco band 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 33 which has a doorway to right hand (south).
Reason for designation
The houses in Windsor place are the best preserved mid C19 houses in Cardiff centre.
Nearby in the register
- Nos 11-24 (Consecutive)Commercialunder 1 mi
- City United Reformed ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Eglwys Dewi Sant (Formerly Church of St. Andrew)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 11 Park PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.