5 Windsor Esplanade

Nos. 1-19 Windsor Esplanade comprise a row of houses built in the 19th century. They are constructed from grey and brown snecked local sandstone with bathstone dressings. The roofs are generally slate, with mainly red brick chimneys. Each house has three windows and two storeys, with round-headed attic dormers set behind a decorative pierced bathstone parapet, some of which has been lost. The two houses at each end of the terrace, and the central three houses, project slightly forward and feature pinnacled shaped gables with bathstone copings; these gables contain square-headed windows with hoodmoulds. The central house has a slightly narrower and lower shaped gable. A bathstone cornice runs along the terrace, below which is a band of red brick and red and black terracotta tiles. Window and door surrounds are in bathstone, with rectangular hood moulds. There are bathstone band courses at first floor sill level. The first floor windows are single over the doorways, with paired windows over the ground floor semi-hexagonal bay windows, which have cornices and low parapets. The central house differs in its window arrangement, with three single windows on the first floor and an additional window on the ground floor to the right of the bay. The glazing has been largely replaced. The west return is rendered and features a broad shaped gable. The east return is in stone, with a triangular gable and two blocked windows on each floor.