3 Windsor Esplanade

Nos. 1-19 Windsor Esplanade comprise a terrace of houses dating from the 19th century, built of snecked grey and brown local sandstone with bathstone dressings, and with slate roofs and mainly red brick chimneys. The houses are generally three windows wide, arranged over two storeys with round-headed attic dormers set behind a partially lost, decoratively pierced bathstone parapet. The two houses at each end and the central three are slightly set forward, featuring pinnacled shaped gables with bathstone copings, and square-headed windows with hoodmoulds within the gable. The central house has a slightly narrower and lower shaped gable. A bathstone cornice runs along the building line, beneath a band of red brick and red and black terracotta tiles. Window and door surrounds are in bathstone, incorporating rectangular hoodmoulds. Bathstone band courses are visible at first-floor sill level. The first floor features single windows above the doorways, and paired windows above the ground-floor semi-hexagonal bay windows which have cornices and low parapets. The central house’s window arrangement differs, with three single windows to the first floor and an additional window on the ground floor to the right of the bay. The glazing has been largely replaced. A western return is rendered and features a broad shaped gable. The eastern return is stone-built with a triangular gable and blocked windows, with two windows on each floor.