The Big Windsor is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. Commercial building.
The Big Windsor
- WRENN ID
- rough-rubble-wind
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 May 1975
- Type
- Commercial building
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Stuccoed 3-storey building on corner site. North front with 4 bays, parapet and modillion cornice, channelled blocking course. Second floor windows have stucco architraves and hornless sashes. First floor windows with cornice to architraves, and 2 hornless and 2 horned sashes. Ground floor channelled (some pebbledash) with windows set in 6 round-headed arches with stucco archivlots and keystones. Arches articulated by Doric pilasters. Spandrels of arches have moulded vine leaves and grapes. Stepped E front of 5 bays with central bay projecting, and with stepped parapet with Grecian detailing. Flanking bays follow N front, all second floor sashes hornless, all first floor horned. In central bay, second floor tripartite sash window with consoles over. Balconied first floor tripartite window with pilasters and entablature with medallions. Balcony flanked by lamps on brackets. Shallow Greek Doric portico with fanlight above. Ground floor windows large pane sashes. To S, asymmetrical three bay elevation following that to N, but without arched ground floor. To W, elevation altered with modern full-height brick extension. To S, length of iron railings on low wall of Radyr Stone.
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