No. 2 And Attached Railings

House. Built around 1810, with alterations in the 19th and 20th centuries, by John Pinch. The front and rear are faced with limestone ashlar, and the roof is covered with Welsh slate, featuring an ashlar stack on the right side, shared with the adjacent building at No.1 Cavendish Place.

The building is four storeys high, plus a cellar, and has a three-window front. The first floor has three original 19th-century sash windows with plate glass, horns, and wrought iron balconettes, matching those of No.1 Cavendish Place. The second floor has three six-pane sash windows with stone sills, while the third floor features three similar three-pane over six-pane sashes. The ground floor has two six-pane sash windows with stone sills to the right and a six-panel door with reeded and raised and fielded panels, and a four-pane fanlight, within a plain surround, approached by pennant stone steps. The basement has two six-pane sash windows and a partially glazed four-panel door.

The front features channelled rustication creating the impression of voussoirs above the windows and door, a band course above that, a Pompeian scroll frieze above the second floor, a moulded eaves cornice, and a coped parapet. The rear elevation includes a six-pane over nine-pane sash window with a balconette similar to the front, and one six-pane over six-pane sash window to each of the second, third, and ground floors. Smaller 20th-century windows are present on the second and third floors. Some old limewash remains on the ground floor, and the downpipe on the left is mostly lead with two lead hoppers. The interior remains unexamined.

Attached to the building are wrought iron railings and a gate with shaped tops on painted bases.

Cavendish Place was the first large development on the lower slopes of Lansdown, beginning in 1808. This location took advantage of the views overlooking the surrounding countryside and helped to define the western boundary of the city. Numbers 1 and 2 Cavendish Place are less ornate than numbers 2 to 13, and represent a transition in Pinch's design, linking the existing buildings in Park Street and Park Place with the more substantial development higher up.