17 Windsor Esplanade

Nos. 1-19 Windsor Esplanade comprise a group of houses dating to the 18th century, constructed of snecked grey and brown local sandstone with bathstone dressings. They have slate roofs and mainly red brick chimneys. Each house has three windows, two storeys in height, with round-headed attic dormers concealed behind a decorative, pierced bathstone parapet, part of which has been lost. The two houses at each end of the terrace, and the three houses in the centre, project slightly, displaying pinnacled shaped gables with bathstone copings. Within these gables are square-headed windows with hoodmoulds; the central house has a slightly narrower and lower shaped gable. A bathstone cornice sits above a band of red brick and red and black terracotta tiles. Window and door surrounds are in bathstone, incorporating rectangular hood moulds. A bathstone band course runs at first floor sill level. On the first floor, single windows are positioned above the doorways, while paired windows are situated over ground floor semi-hexagonal bay windows, which feature cornices and low parapets. The window arrangement of the central house differs, displaying 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. The western return is rendered with a broad shaped gable, while the eastern return is in stone with a triangular gable and two blocked windows on each floor.