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NOTES ON THE HISTORY OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN ROATH
In 1841 Roath consisted of a vestige of a nucleated Village made up of a few poor farmsteads and cottages clustered around the parish church. The village street, now the residential end of Albany Road, contained about half a dozen cottages. A few comparatively isolated farmsteads were dotted around the periphery of the parish. The Census statistics tell us that the number of houses in the whole of the parish was 60. The Tithe Plan for the parish of Roath shows that the land was two-thirds meadow and pasture and one third arable and woodland. The woodland occupied only 7% of the whole area, and the arable 27%.
The Land Owners in Roath in 1841
The principal land owners and their holdings as a percentage of the area of the parish were:
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart. (Tredegar Estate) 39%
Marquess of Bute 27%
Thomas William Edwards 10%
William Mark Wood 6%
John Mathews Richards (later ,Mackintosh estate) 5%
Charles Crofts Williams (Roath Court Estate) 4%
Mary Charles 1.4%
William Alexander Bradley 1.2%
The Pioneers of Urbanisation
Of the above land-owning families all except T.W.Edwards and William Mark Wood, whose farm lands were farthest from Cardiff, systematically gave over their land to urban housing development during the second half of the 19th century. The leaders in the field were the Morgans of Tredegar, the Butes of Cardiff Castle and Crofts-Williams of Roath Court.
Bute
The second Marquess of Bute reserved most of his land in the southern portion of the parish (his Adamsdown estate) for investment in what he hoped would be more profitable industrial and docks development. By far the wealthiest landowner (he was also lord of the manors of Roath Tewkesbury and Roath Dogfield) he not only had the advantage of capital resources at his disposal but had gained experience from the development of his urban estates in Cardiff and elsewhere. After the death of the second Marquess in 1846 the administration of the Bute estate continued in the hands of trustees until the third Marquess came of age in September 1868.
Tredegar
Sir Charles Morgan, Bart., was succeeded in 1846 by his son, Sir Charles Morgan Robinson Morgan who was created Baron Tredegar in 1859 and died in 1875. It was his son, Godfrey Charles, the second Baron Tredegar who was created first Viscount in 1905 and distinguished himself at Balaclava during the Crimean War. He died without issue in 1913.
The beginnings of Roath Urbanisation
Whereas Bute was the first in the field in the town of Cardiff with some squalid housing in the area of his docks, in Roath it was Tredegar, marginally the largest landowner in the parish and lord of the manor of Roath Keynsham, who set the pace. ,Indeed, some of the earliest street development in Roath was on Tredegar land adjacent to the Cardiff boundary lying to the north and to the south of the main Cardiff- Newport Road – in the City Road area and around the Upper Splott Farm. A large gridiron of streets of small terraced houses had already been built in the Splott area by 1861.
Resident Ground Landlords
The only large landowners who resided in the parish in the 1840’s were Charles Crofts Williams of Roath Court and John Mathews Richards of Plasnewydd.
The urbanisation of the Roath Court estate is unique in being spread over a period of more than 100 years. It began in 1850 and ended recently, on what was Roath Court land, with the construction of blocks of flats in the Newport Road end of Elm Street. The Williams family’s connection with Roath which had lasted about 130 years, was severed with the death of Miss Rose Williams of Roath Court on 22 June 1952. The estate was bounded on the north by what is now the eastern portion of Albany Road, between Roath Court and the Claude Hotel and on the south by Newport Road between Roath Court and Wordsworth Avenue.
Ribbon Development
It was inevitable that as the density of housing within Cardiff reached saturation point on the eastern side of the town, it would spill over in the form of ribbon development along the line of the main road into the contiguous parish of Roath. That this is precisely what happened is clearly evidenced by the 1861 Census and is illustrated by remarks in the introduction to Duncan & Ward’s Cardiff Directory of 1863:-
…………from the Infirmary [i.e.the Old Infirmary] there is a continuous line of residences and Villas on the north side of the road, as well as a large number on the south side which impart to Newport road the character of a pleasant suburban residence.
Much of this early development in Roath was on the land of Roath Court estate on the north side of Newport Road.
A Late Developer
Urbanisation of the Plasnewydd and adjacent Ty’n-y-Coed land by the Richards family of Plasnewydd on what became the Mackintosh Estate in and around Albany Road did not start until 1884. The story of how the urban estate came into being and evolved has been told elsewhere.
Chronology of Street building
In terms of population Roath remained virtually static until 1851 as can be seen from the decennial census figures for the parish:
1801 236
1811 211
1821 269
1831 272
1841 298
1851 312
1841 was the first year for which the number of houses was recorded. In Roath the number was 60. Ten years later the figure was 63 inhabited houses and 2 in the course of building. The average number of persons per inhabited house was therefore 5 for both years.
1861 Census examined
In 1861 the number of inhabited houses had increased to 524 and the population to 3044. The average number of persons per inhabited house had increased to 5.8. Uninhabited houses numbered 120 and 49 were then in course of building.
We need look no further than the 1861 census to see that the process of metamorphosis from a rural parish to a densely populated suburb began in the 1850’s. We cannot say precisely when the first planned street of residential houses was built but if J. Hobson Matthews (C.R.V.p.436) is to be believed, Wordsworth Street (now Avenue) can stake a claim to be one of the first. He Says that this tree-lined cul-de-sac on the north side of Newport road near the first milestone was built in 1850 and it was later re-named Wordsworth Avenue. The fact that it is not shown in the 1851 census may indicate that although the road had been laid out by Crofts Williams of Roath Court, the houses had not been built. Cardiff Council minutes show that dead trees in the street were replaced in 1880. It is a unique example in Roath of a deliberately planned Victorian style tree-lined retreat of high class family houses. Most of the once elegant houses in Wordworth Avenue and the secluded Woodland Place of nine houses which forms a short spur from the Avenue have seen better days but a brave and largely successful effort has been made by some owners to renovate them.
Alderman W.J.Trounce in his reminiscences and historical notes “Cardiff in the Fifties”, Cardiff 1918, states that in May 1859 houses were being erected in Partridge Road and Oakfield Street, both on the Roath Court estate.
An examination of the 1861 Census returns was made in 1984 by Mr G.H.Penfold, our former Treasurer, before he moved to London. From his working papers which he left to the Society the table overleaf has been extracted.
Leasehold
The land-owners adopted the practice of leasing building plots for a term of 99 years. At the end of the term the land together with any buildings on it would revert to the ground landlord, who would be entitled to claim dilapidation expenses from the “owner” of the property.
Architects and Builders
Because the ground landlords exercised overall architectural control over the building operations on their estates, each street or group of streets is found to have elements of uniformity of status and general character in accordance with estate policy. Each ground landlord engaged his own architect who submitted plans to the local authority for the proposed lay-out of streets and the houses as and when they were ready to be built. Usually, a large number of master builders or contractors were involved in the house building operations on each estate. They were allowed, if not encouraged, to indulge their idiosyncrasies in minor decorative variations of design in their blocks or terraces. Such distinctive features can often be discerned as the hall-mark of a particular builder.
The Bute estate architect was E.W.M. Corbett while the Tredegar estate engaged Habershon & Fawckner. These names recur with monotonous frequency in the municipal index of plans. The Mackintosh estate retained C.Rigg while Crofts Williams seems to have used for a time the services of T.Waring.
Not a great deal is known about the individual builders.
Fluctuations in supply and demand made house building a risky form of enterprise. Bankruptcies were common.
Re-building a suburb
The life of a house depends on several factors – how well it was built and maintained, its immediate environment, the expiry of a long lease, town planning policies etc. Many of the earliest small working-class terraced houses have now been demolished – for example those in Shakespeare Street and the immediate vicinity (in what was popularly called “Poets’ Corner”). The largest clearance scheme was in Lower Splott where in the 1960’s an estate of several hundred houses were demolished, destroying a whole community which had sprung up around the East Moors steel works.
We are now well into the age of second or even third generation housing accommodation on sites left vacant by demolition of older houses.
A.J.W.K.
ROATH 1861 Census – Houses
Location Inhabited Uninhabited Building
Roath Road 34 1
Montgomery Terr. 3 5
Longcross Villas 2 1
Elm Place 4
Victoria Place 2 2
Elm Street 50 19 15
Wordsworth St. 7 3
Oxford St. 5 5
Shakespeare St. 56 18
Milton St. 43 12
Clive St. 18 3 2
Partridge Rd. 9 8
Oakfield St. 5 3 4
Plucca Lane 17 9
Montgomery Place 7 1
John St (Green Lane) 42 8 2
Greenway Place 2
Connection St. 3
Planet St. 20 10
Comet St. 20 2
Eclipse St. 31 2 1
System St. 19 3
Constellation St. 27 5
Meteor St. 14
Splotlands Terrace 4 1
Villas (unidentified) 5
Misc. unidentified
incl. cottages Roath
village, farmsteads,
large houses, barracks etc. 50
Missing folios 30 4 15
TOTALS 524 120 49
STREETS IN ROATH
On the following pages is an alphabetical list of most of the Streets within the confines of the old parish of Roath, giving the date that the first house plans were submitted either to the Roath District Board of Health as shown in their minutes (S.K.O. P/57) or to the Cardiff Corporation as shown in their records – Index of building Plans in the City Hall and minutes of the Cardiff Council Public Works Committee in south Glamorgan Central Library, Cardiff.
The minutes of the Roath District Board of Health commence in 1800 and end in 1875 when Roath was absorbed into Cardiff. No building could take place after 1860 without approval of plans by the Roath Board and after 1875 by the Public Works Committee of the Cardiff Council. It will be appreciated that the age of particular houses in the streets listed below may be either earlier or later than the date of approval of the first house plans for that street. For example, several streets had already been built between 1851 and the first meeting of the Roath District Board of Health. These early streets, shown in the above list taken from the 1861 Census, obviously pre-date the submission of earliest plans. In some cases, particularly, long streets or main roads (e.g.Roath Road/ Newport Road, Albany Road) building of houses was spread over a considerable period and in other cases the original street was extended (e.g. Princes St.) so that house building took place in phases spread over a considerable time span. Provided these considerations are taken into account, and allowing for gaps in the information particularly of exact dates of post-war suburban house building, the list should provide an adequate and useful guide to the chronology and direction of urban housing development in Roath.
Abbreviations :
H & F.= Habershon & Fawckner, architects to the Tredegar Estate.
E.W.M.C.. = E.W.M. Corbett, architect.
R.D.B.H. = Roath District Board of Health minutes
P.W.C. = Public works Committee
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Abbotsford Rd ? All 5 houses (Nos.1-9) re-numbered & re-named
101-109 Melrose Av. after 1958
Aberdovey St. 4.1893
Aberystwyth St. 24.6.1887 13 houses & 1 shop for J.Phillips. Arch: E.W.M.C.
Adamsdown Place ? 1892 Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co.(9 houses)
Adamsdown Rd. 3.1876
Adamsdown Square 1.1877
Adeline St. 7.1881 for C.Fox. Arch: H & F
Agate St. 7.4.1874
Albany Rd. 1884 An enclosure road (Heath Enclosure Act 1801). Known as the Merthyr road until name changed 10.4. 1884. See also “Merthyr Road”.
Alexander St. 2.1885
Alfred St. 12.1891
Alma Rd. 7.1898
Amesbury Rd. 11.1907
Anderson Place – Example of new “second generation” housing in
Adamsdown in area of former cattle market and
former Cycle & Platinum Streets & Galston Place.
Angus St. 9.1891
Arabella Place See Kelvin Rd.
Arabella St. 5.1884 No.90 was leased 99yrs.7.8.1889 by Mrs Mackintosh to Richard Tythecott (bldr.) of 153 Treharris St.
Arnside Rd, Penylan. ? post 1958
Arran Place 2.1911
Arran St. 5.1886
Arthur St. 6.1880
Ascog St. ? Adamsdown Cottages. Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co. 34 cottages occupied per 1880/1 directory
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Ashwood Court – Example of modern “second generation” housing –
block of flats off Newport Rd. end of Elm Street.
See also “Elmwood”, “Lynwood” & “Norwood Court”
Augusta St. 6.66 drainage plans 6.1857 & 1.1865
Avonmuir Rd.,Tremorfa. See “Pengam”
Awel Mor, Penylan ? post 1970
Balaclava Rd. 7.1898
Bangor St. 10.1891 new street (Bute) 5.1891
Barons Court Rd. 11.2.1937 new road 16.4.1935
Beresford Rd. 6.1887 formerly Spring Gdns. Rd.re-namd 8.12.1887
Bertram St. 9.1874 Extn. of Cecil & Bertram St for Mr Bradley 7.10 1873
Birchwood Grange lane ?
Birchwood Rd. ?
Blanche St. 2.1882
Blenheim Rd. 10.1909
Boleyn Walk ? formerly lane rear Ty Draw Rd incorporated in house development of filled in railway cutting by
Westbury Homes 1982
Booker St ?
Borrowdale Close ? post 1958
Boverton St. 9.1899
Bradley St. 1.1877 formerly Maud St. q.v.
“Mr Bradley’s .Estate” 7.4.1869 2 houses. 6.7.1875: Street plan of land of M. of
Bute and Wm. Bradley & others between Green Lane, John St., G.W.R. & Spring Gdns.
Braeval St. 5.1895
Brandreth Rd ? post 1958
Bridgend St. 6.1892
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Brighton Terrace ~ 12.1894
Broadway 7.5.1867 formerly Green Lane
Bronwydd Av. 10.9.1936 16.5.1929 new street. (Mountjoy Ltd)
House plans up to 1956.
Bronwydd Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Bruce St. 5.1893
Burnaby St ? ? c.1881
Byron St. ? formerly Clive St. q.v.
Caerphilly St. ?
Cairnmuir Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Cameron St. ?
Carisbrooke Way ? ? 1950’s .
Carlisle St. 1.1881
Castle Rd. 4.1869 drainage plan 4.1865 called Plwcca Lane up to 1874,
re-named City Rd. 12.12.1905
Cecil St 6.1.1874 7.10.1873 Extension of & Bertram St. for Mr Bradley
Cefn Coed Cresc. 26.1.1935 Changed from Corsham Rd.
Cefn Coed Gdns. ?
Cefn Coed Rd. 4.1923 Altern. to property: 9.1911. Road is much older.
Charles St. 4.10.1870 later part of Plasnewydd Rd. – re-named 1891
Church Terrace 1.1888 drainage
(Roath village) 10.1895 drainage to 2 houses
18.12.1930 Extn. of road + 6 houses (H.B. Tucker). At least 2 houses bear date “1881
Clarendon Rd. ? ? 1950’s
Claude Place ? prob. contemp. with Claude Rd. (Claude Hotel on corner is dated 1890)
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Claude Rd. 4.1887
Clifton St. 4.12.1866 formerly Connection St. q.v. name changed 5.5.1868.
Clive Place 1870
Clive St. 1.9.1863 for Mr Pearson. re-named Byron St.1891. pre-1861 street
Clun Terrace 22.6.1898
Clyde St. 1.1897
Clydesmir Rd, 18.11.1926 28 houses, Cardiff Corpn.
Coed Ederyn ? post 1958
Colchester Av. 25.7.1912 New road (Tredegar) 14.12.1911
Colchester Av
Industrial Estate 5.1955
Colchester Court ? post 1958
Melrose Av
Comet St. 1.8. 1865 pre-1861 street
Connaught Rd. 5.1897 Report of bankruptcy: (W.M.10.8.1899) of L.E. Ivins
& Thos Andrews – all properties except 6 in Connaught Rd had been finished.
Connection St. 4.12.1866 re-named Clifton St. 5.5.1868. 3 inhab. houses in 1861
Constellation St. 3.5.1864 addition to house of Mr Fry.
pre-1861 street
6.6.1865
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Convent Road see also “Ty Gwyn Rd.”
9.1896 lodge
9.1897 farm buildings.
6.1906 Chapel – convent addition – Rev Father Towne. The former Convent of the Good Shepherd was erected 1872 at expense of the Marquess of Bute.
Cooper St. 4.8.1868 1 villa. probably mis-spelling of Cowper St.q.v.
Copper St 2.3.1869
Corise St – Street plan 1890. See “Dowlais Cottages” now demolished.
Cornelia St. 7.1891 See “Dowlais Cottages”
Corsham Rd. – re-named Cefn Coed Crescent 26.1.1935
Cotttrell Rd. 2.1886 2 houses – W.R.Long
Courtenay Rd. ?
Covenny St. 1.1886
Cowper St. 3.12.1872 formerly Wordworth Place, off Wordsworth Av.
Craigmuir Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
“Crescent, The” 1.7.1873 Unidentified.? Spring Gdns.
Cresc. or Cyril Cresc.
Cressy Rd. 10.4.1901 drainage plan 7.3.1500
Crofts St. 3.9. 1867 also street plan Crofts St. from Shakespeare St. to
Partridge Rd. for C.H. Williams Esq.
School 9. 1878 T.W.Pullar
Schools 5.1894 Rev J.F.Beck “
“Crewys, The” 4.4.1871
Crwys Place ?
Crwys Rd. 1.1868
Cumnock Place ? ? 1892
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Cumnock Terrace 10.1892 23 cottages & shop. plan for new street 4.1892; Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co
Adamsdown Cottages.
10 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory
Cumrae St. – Part of Adamsdown Cottages.
25 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory.
Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co.
1.1886 plan for w.c. & drain for G.W.R.
Cycle St. 3.2.1874 27 houses
Cyfarthfa St. 2.1886 Arch: C.Rigg
Cyncoed Av. – 31.3.1930 – garage for Miss G. Thomas
Cyncoed Rd. 8.7.1910 C & G Geen
plans 4 houses 1911, 3 houses 1913
Roath Park Garden Suburb – new streets & sewer 7.9.1921
Parish Hall & Schoolroom – Rev. I Jackson 3.11.1920
Mission Church & Parish Hall – Rev. I Jackson 4.10 1922
Early houses in Cyncoed Rd were 26-28, 38-40 (1913)
Cyril Crescent 4.11.1873 addl. storey for house
5.5.1874 3 houses
Dalcross St 5.1893
Dalmuir Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Dalton St, 12.8.1886 4 houses for J. Brown. Arch:E.W.M.C.
Daniel St. 2.1871
1.6.1875 12 houses
Daviot St. 9.1895
Deemuir Rd., Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Deepdale Close ? post 1958
Deri Rd. 22.1.1907 1 house
27.5.1908 10 houses
24.6.1909 new lanes- Penllyn Castle : Estates
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Dessmuir Rd. ,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Diamond St. 7.4.1874 99 yr. leases on 58,60,62 & 64 from 25.3.1870
Diana St. 10.1891
Dogfield St. 27.10.1897
Dominion Way ? post 1980
Donald St. 2.1884
Dorchester AV. 18.1.1923 14 houses.
14.12.1911 – new road (Tredegar )
21.1.1932 – new street off
Dovedale Close ? post 1958
Dowlais Cottages Plan of streets of Dowlais Co.’s Cottage Property,
Cornelia St 1891 Cardiff of 18.3.1892 held at G.R.O.
Elaine St 1890 (Tracing No.736. 44′ to 1″)
Corise St 1890 All streets now demolished
Enid St 1890
Layard St. 1890
Menelaus St. 1890
Dryden St. 4.10.1870
Dunsmuir Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam*
Dynevor Rd. ? post 1958
Earl’s Court Rd. 17.11.1932 1st 8 houses, new street 21.1.1932 (Tredegar )
named 21.1.1932 (after London underground station, as is Baron’s Court Rd. Raven’s Court Close & Turnham Green)
Earl’s Court Place ? New street. (Tredegar) 16.4.1935,
Cardiff C.C.Elect. sub-station 16.5.1935.
P.W. Committee 21.9, 1938
Fast Tyndall St, ?
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Eclipse St. 4.4.1865 a pre-1861 street
Egremont Rd. ? post 1958
Elaine St ? See “Dowlais Cottages”
Elderwood Close ? post 1958
Elm Place – See Roath Road
Elm Street 2.4.1861 a pre 1861 street
Elmwood Court – See “Ashwood Court”
Emerald St. 5.5.1874
Enid St. 7.1890 63 houses. Now demolished.
See “Dowlais Cottages”
Ennerdale Close ? post 1958
Essich St. 8.1893
Eyre St 28.1.1886 4 houses for J. Parry. Arch: H & F.
Fairoak Rd. 10.1896 plan of road 2.1867. ballasted 1890
Fanny St. ?
Farmville Rd. ? c.1900
Fishguard St. 25.8.1887 name changed to Wimborne St. 28.5.1896
Florence St. 1.1881 shops
10. 1896 house
Florentia St. 4.1886 9 houses. 1 shop for J.Hartnell.Arch: J.P.Jones
Fort St. 8.1877
Four Elms Rd. – drainage 5.1899. (No houses per C.C. records)
Fox St. 9.1899
Francis St. 1.6.1875
Freshmoor Rd. – (No houses per C.C. records)
Gallamuir Rd. ?
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Galston Place 1.1887 11 cottages & stable
Galston St. 10.1876 Plan for proposed street off Galston St. for L. Purnell. Arch: E.W.M.C. approved 28.10.1886
Garesfield St. ?
Garnet St. ?
Glanmuir Rd. ,Tremorfa “See Pengam”
Glenroy St. 11.3.1886 8 houses for D.P.Edwards. Arch: C.Rigg.
Glossop Rd. ? 1.1876 – plan of new street (Bute)
Glossop Terrace – no houses.
Gold St. 3.2.1874
Gower St ?
Grafton Close ? ? 1950’s
Green Hill St – no houses ? c.1920
(Lower Splott)
Green Lane 7.5.1867 an ancient roadway.
Re-named Broadway
Greenlawns 21 .8.1953 for A.J.Parfitt. last house: 10. 1954
Greenway Place ? a pre-1861 street
Grenville Rd. 1.1916 plan for wash-house
Grisedale Close ? post 1958
Grouse St. 5.10.1869
Gwendoline Place ? formerly Howard Place
Gwendoline St. 10.1876 Adamsdown Cottages .
Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co.
28 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory
Gwennyth St. 1.1887
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Habershon St 11.1883 Bldr: Chas. Fox. Named after Tredegar Estate architect. Arch: H & F.
Hampton Court Rd. ?
Harold St. 10.1875
Harriet St. 5.1879 1at house 1883
Harrissmith Rd. 10.1904
Hazeldine Av. ?
Helen St. 7.8. 1866 Nos.1-12 in 1871 Census. Plan for further 74 houses
in 1885 (per Health & Port San. minutes of 3.6.1885)
Hendy St. 3.1901
Hinton St. 12.1891
Hope Terrace ? 2 houses between Gwendoline & Railway St.
Howard St. ? Adamsdown Cottages
Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co
24 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory
Ilton Rd. 3.1908
Inchmarnock St. ? Adamsdown Cottages
Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co
31 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory
Inverness Place 2.1884 Arch: C.Rigg
Ipswich Rd. ? post 1958
Iron St. 4.8.1871
“Island Farm” – 2.12.1873 new streets for Rev.J.H.& T.E.Stacey
James St. 2.7.1872 14 houses for James Hemingway. re-named Talworth St. 2.12.1867 plan for new street for Charles Pearson .
Janet St. 5.1881 Bldr: C.Fox. Arch: H & F.
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
John St. – re-named Nora St. pre-1861 street
(Green Lane/ Broadway )
John St. – re-named Vere St (q.v) 7.5.1867
(Plwcca Lane/ Castle Rd).
Kames Place – no houses (only gospel hall)
Plan for office for H. Adams 3. 1884 .
Kelvin Rd. ? formerly Arabella Place
Kenmuir Rd., Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Kenyon Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Keppoch St. 11.1886 4 houses. New Prebyterian Church 8.1900
schoolroom 6.1886. Nos.40-50 & 88-98 (12 houses) – 99 yr. leases from 19.9.1889 – sold 1892 for £136 each.
Kerrycroy St. ? Adamsdown Cottages
Cardiff Workmens Cottage. Co
34 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory
Kilcatten St. ? Adamsdown Cottages
Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co
34 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory ,
Kimberley Rd. 10.1904
Kincraig St. 4.1886
Kincraig St. Upper 4.1889
King Wood Close ? post 1958
Kingarth St ? Adamsdown Cottages
Cardiff Workmens Cottage Co
22 houses occupied per 1880/1 directory
Lady Margaret Terrace 1.1882 21 houses
Lady Mary Rd. 15.10.1925 New street & sewer for Mounjoy Ltd. 19.3.1925
Lady Mary R.C.School 19.11.1953 & 16.9.1954
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Lady Mary Secondary School 17 8.1955 .
Ladysmith Rd, 8.1905
Lascelles Rd. ? re-named South Park Rd.
Langdale Close ? post 1958
Layard St. ? Dowlais Iron Co. cottages
Lead St. 2.1.1872
Lewis Rd. ?
Lily St. 1.10.1872
Linden Avenue ?
Little Tredegar Rd. 6.1.1874
Llanedeyrn Close ?
Llanedeyrn Rd. ? An ancient Rd. Housing – post 2nd War
Llanelly St. 8.1887 Dowlais Iron Co. Arch: E.W.M.C
Llwyn-y-grant Isaf 22.9.1904 cottage – C.H.Williams
23.10.1913 motor house – Williams & Hoare
21.5.1914 4 houses – do. –
21.6.1917 4 houses – do. –
15.1.1920 terrace-17 houses – do –
15.7.1920 7 houses – W.Sainsbury & Co.
16.9. 1920 babies’ home – C of E Waif & Strays Soc.
Llwyn-y-grant Place 19.2.1925 7 houses
9.1925 1 house
9.1926 5 houses-Williams & Hoare :
Llwyn-y-grant Rd. 20.12.1923 Layout of street & sewers for . C.L.Williams 5.5.1924. Principal builders: Williams & Hoare.
Llwyn-y-grant Terrace 15.1.1920 17 houses (Nos. 3-21 & 2-16) – Williams & Hoare
Lochaber St 4.1893
Longcross Place 9.1876 Name changed to Orbit St. 1.3.1897
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Longcross St. ?
Longcross Villas See Roath Road
Lonsdale Rad. ? post 2nd War
Lothian Cresc. ? post 1958
Lucas St. 3.1876 first 2 houses
2.1875 plan for cooperage
Lynwood Court – See “Ashwood Court”
Mackintosh Place 3.1884 further house plans extending to 1896. Arch: C.Rigg
Madoc St.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Mafeking Rd. 2.1905
Malefant St. 27.10.1897
Marion St. 6.1881
Marlborough Rd. 7.1898 Laundry 5.1897
Maud St. 1.1877 re-named Bradley St
Meirion Place, Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Melrose Av. 21.5.1931 New road 19.2.1931. road named 19.3.1931
Menelaus St; 7.1880 65 houses – Dowlais Iron Co.
Mercia Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Meredith Rd.,Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Merthyr Road 14.2.1884 9 houses for Purnell & Fry. Arch: C.Rigg.
Re-named Albany Rd. 10.4. 1884
Mervyn Rd.,Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Metal St. 5.1.1869
Meteor St. 2.5.1865 A pre-1861 street
Milford St. ?
Millman St. – no houses
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Milton St 4.4.1865 9 houses. A pre-1861 street.
Altern. to premises of James Ward – plan 5.4.1864
Minster Road ? Street layout. Tredegar 8.1923
Miterdale Close ? post 1958
Mona Place,Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Montgomery Place ? Pre-1861
Montgomery St ? c.1893
Montgomery Terrace 3.6.1873 Addition – W.J.Trounce
(Roath Rd/Newport Rd)
Monthermer Rd. 22 .9.1897
Moon St. 6.4.1869
Moorland Place ?
Moorland Rd. 1.1900
Moors Road 5.8.1873
Morlais St. 1.1901
Moy Road 8.1884
Miterdale Close ? post 1958
Muirton Rd. ,Treemorfa see “Pengam”
Neath St 7.1893
Newminster Rd. ? Street layout 1923 – Tredegar
Newport Rd. – also known as Roath Road. An ancient highway. First villas 1850’s.
Ninian Rd. 1859 Street names approved for Lord Bute 26.4.1899
Nora St. – formerly John St. off Green Lane/Broadway
Norman St 9.10.1884 Arch: C.Rigg
North Luton Place 2.1877
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
North Park Rd. – No houses
Northcote St. 1.1874
Norwich Rd. ?
Norwood Court – See “Ashwood Court”
Oakfield St. ? A pre-1861 street. 3 houses 10.7.1884 for Chas.
Shepherd. Arch: T.Waring.
Oak Wood Av. ? post 1958
Orbit St. 9.1876 name altered from Longcross Place 1.3.1897. 99 yr. leases granted on Nos.3,5 & 7 from 2.6.1870
Ormonde Close ? post 2nd war
Ordell St. 5.1881 Arch: H & F
Oxford St. 5.6.1856 A pre-1861 street
Paddock, The ? post 1958
Pant yr Wyn Cresc. – Lower portion of Pen-y-lan Rd. (Between Wellfield &
Albany Rd.) was thus named in 1902 by P.W.C but
minute was rescinded.
Partridge Rd. 3.4.1866 A pre-1861 street
Patterdale Close ? post 1958
Pearl Crescent ?
Pearl Place ?
Pearl St. 7.4.1874
Pearson St. 8.1889 Date on houses = 1890
Pengam 16.9.1926 108 houses -Cardiff Corporation
21.10.1926 New streets
8.6.1939 68 houses (building halted for duration of war – resumed 1945 & continues to date)
Pengam Rd. – see “Pengam”
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Pen-y-lan
New roads 10.1889 Lord Bute
“Wellclose” 6.1885 for A.E.Elliott
Cottage, “Oldwell” 1.1887
Pen-y-lan Court 1.1889 House,cottage & stable
“Greenlawns” 10.1889
Residence 6.1894 J Strachan
Pen-y-lan Place 26.11.1903 5 houses for G.Paltridge
Pen-y-lan Road 4.4.1865 2 houses. Henry Oram
3.2.1869 3 houses, D. Prosser & 12 houses. Leonard Purnell.
An ancient thoroughfare.
Pen-y-lan Terrace 24.7.1913 3 houses (Nos.2-6)
Pen-y-wain Place 7.1893
Pen-y-wain Rd. 10.1897
Piercefield Place ? See “Island Farm”
Pine Wood Crescent ? post 1958
Planet St 3.3.1868 A pre-1861 street
Plasnewydd
5.1885 new streets – Arch: C.Rigg
11.1885 amended plan new streets
2.1887 8 streets – Mackintosh of Mackintosh
9.1888 9 houses – T.Harris
25.6.1897 alterns to “Roath Cottage” (public house)
15.5.1924 alterns “Roath Cottage” S.A.Brain & Co.
Plasnewydd Place 3.1890 2 houses
Plasnewydd Rd. – old portion was formerly Charles St. q.v.
new portion – see “Plasnewydd”
Plasnewydd Square 11.1888 stable & loft – T.Harris
8.1889 5 houses
21.3.1900 Eng. Prebyt. Church – E.Reese
Platinum St. 4.11.1873
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Plwcca Lane see Castle Road re-named Castle Rd. in 1874 & City Rd. in 1905
(See Project Newsletter Vol.4 No.1 p.13). A pre 1861 street.
Polar St 5.4.1870 9 houses per R.D.B.H.
(Unidentified street) 7.6.1870 3 houses – do. –
Pomeroy Terrace – Nos.2 -14 Stacey Rd.
Pontypridd St. 1.1888
Portmanmoor Rd. 5.1887 Portmanmmor Rd plan of Dowlais Iron Co. held at G.R.O. Bundle D/DG Section H Box 8.
Cardiff Corporation’s first Council houses – 1914,
Priest Rd. ? only alterations etc in C.C. Index to Plans
Prince Leopold St 12.1876
Princes Avenue 12.11.1931 4 houses. street named 17.12.1931
Princes St. (old portion) 7.1897
Queen Wood Close ? post 1958
Queensberry Rd. ? post 2nd War
Railway Crescent ?
Railway St. 5.1881 Arch: H. & F.
Ravens Court Close ? post 2nd war (See notes on Earl’s Court Rd)
Retreat, The 6.1934 E.Turner & Son. new road 29.3.1934
Rhymney River, Bridge Rd ? post 1980 industrial. estate road
Richards St. 8.1879
Richards Terrace ?
Roath Road – An ancient highway. First villas built 1850-1860.
1851 Census: 34 Inhab. houses.
Montgomery Terr. – 1861: 3 Inhab. 5 Uninhab.
Longcross Villas – 1861: 2 Inhab.1 Uninhab.
Elm Place – 1861: 4 Inhab.
Victoria Place – 1861: 2 Inhab. 2 Uninhab.
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Roath Court Place 7.1910
Roath Court Rd. 7.1910
Roath Moor Rd. ?
Robert St. 12.1883 8 houses
8.1871 Drainage plan.
Further 28 houses 14.1.1686 –
Cathays Workmens Cottage Co.
Robinson Square (Lower Splott) ? ? 1920 – Cardiff Corporation. Now demolished
Rose St. 6.4.1869
Round Wood Close ? post 1958
Rover Way – post 2nd War. No houses.
Ruby St. 1.12.1874
Ruthven St. – Extension 26.5.1887 for Plasnewydd Estate.
Arch: C.Rigg. Re-named Strathnairn St.
St James St. 20.7.1875 Entrance lodge St James. for James Hemingway
Plan for new streets St James for James Hemingway 6.2.1872
St Margaret’s Crescent 9.1891 Chapel, St : Margaret’s House
4.1894 Children’s Home
Sandringham Rd. 4.1899 2 houses
7.1911 4 houses
Sanguahar St 10.1892 23 cottages 6 2 shops.
Name is a mis-spelling of “Sanquhar”
Sapphire St. 7.4.1874 Deed re. Myddfai House, Sapphire St. 4.5.1891 held at G.R.0. (D/DG ?) .
School St (Unidentified) 7.5.1872 Plan for cab-shed approved by Roath Dist. Board
Seymour St. 14.1.1886 7 houses. for E.Jenkins. Arch: H & F.
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Shakespeare St. 3.12.1861 A pre-1861 street.1861 Census: 56 Inhab.
18 Uninhab. houses. 99 yr. leases granted 2.7.1856
on nos.7,8,52 & 53. (Lessor: Joseph Thomas).
Nos. 7 & 8 sold 1892 for £115 each
Nos.52 & 53 sold 1896 for £128 each.
Street demolished 1972
Shirley Rd. 6.1905
Silver St. 3.3.1874
Singleton Rd. 12.1894
Skaithmuir Rd. see “Pengam”
Skelmuir Rd. ,Tremorfa see Pengam
Smith St. ? ? c.1920. Cdf. Corpn. now demolished
Snipe St 4.7.1871
south Luton Place ? drainage 1 house 1.1889
South Park Rd. – Formerly Lascelles Rd.q.v.
Southcourt Rd. c.1932 see “Earl’s Court Rd.”
Southey St 4.9.1866
Southminster Rd. c.1923 see “Minster Rd.*
Spencer St. – formerly Lascelles Rd.
Splotland Terrace 4.8. 1868 A Blind Asylum for Messrs Shand & Trustees.
Later re-named Glossop Terr. A pre-13861 street
1861 Census: houses: 4 Inhab. 1 Unihab.
Splott Road 5.1886 12 shops
9.1866 15 houses for J.Comley. Arch:H & F
3.1881 schools
Spring Gdns.Place 7.1888
Spring Gdns Rd. 6.1887 re-named Beresford Rd. 8.12.1887
Spring Gdns. Terrace ?
Spring Gdns. Cresc. 6.1861
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Stacey Road 6.4.1875 see “Island Farm”
Stallcourt Av. 1.1913
Star St. 6.4.1869
Stenhousemiuir Place post 1980 See “Pengam”
Storrar Rd. see “Pengam”
Strathnairn St. 12.1887 formerly Ruthven St.
Sturminster Rd. 5.1924
Sun Street ? plan for stable 2.3.1875
Swansea St. 5.1891 6 houses
7.1891 36 houses
Swinton St. ? c.1881
System St. 4.12.1866 a pre-1861 street
Talworth House 2.7.1867 Additions for Mr Pearson
4.11.1873 Additions for James Hemingway
(See Project Newsletter Vol.4 No.1.pp 13 et seq.)
Talworth St. – 3.12.1867 plan for new street (James St.)
new portion built 1890
name changes from James St.in 1891
Taymuir Rd. ,Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Teal St 1.2.1870
Tenby St. 8.5. 1887 13 houses for C.Fox, Arch: E.W.M.C.
Tewkesbury Place 27.10.1887
Tewkesbury St. 27.10.1897
Theodora St. 7.1896
Timbers Square 11.1955
Tin St. 3.10.1871
Topaz St. 3.11.1874
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Trafalgar Rd. 10.1911
Treharris St. 2.1886 Arch: C.Trigg
Tremorfa See also “Pengam”.
Many houses built under Govt. sponsored master apprentice scheme, started in 1945 run by Cardiff Corporation involving Huxley Turner, the builder and others.
Trevethan Place ? Per 0.S.map 1880 a cul-de-sac of 5 houses off Wordsworth St. later re-named Woodland Place
Tulloch St. ?
Turnham Green ? See “Earl’s Court Rd.”
Tweedsmuir Rd.,Tremorfa See “Pengam”
Tydfil Place 3.1905
Ty Draw Place 12.1903
Ty Draw Rd. 27.1.1904 3 houses – Bute
New street & sewers plan 14.5.1903
Ty Gwyn Avenue 3.1910 “White Lodge”
Ty Gwyn Crescent ?
Ty Gwyn Road 6.1890 “Glenside”. see also “Convent Rd.”
Tyler St 7.1877
Tyn-y-coed Place 9.1895 8.1884 street named 7.1892 plan for 14 new
Streets.
University Place 1.1905
Upper Clifton St. – see “Clifton St.” & “Connection St.”
Vale Road ? 3 houses only
Vere St. 7.5.1867 formerly John St (re-named 7.5.1867)
Victoria Place – A terrace in Roath Rd. in 1860’s
Violet Row 8.1884
Name Date first house plans Notes
(if known)
Walker Rd. ? ? c.1881
Waterloo Gdns. 10.3.1910 3 houses
18.8.1919 6 houses
Wasdale Close ? post 1958
Waterloo Rd. 11.12.1907 6 houses.Nos.1-11
24.6.1909 1 house – W.T. Harding
13.10.1897 drainage plan 14.121911 – plan for new road
Well Wood Close ? post 1958
Wellfield Place 5.1894 7 houses & 1 house Albany Rd.
Wellfield Rd. 4.1891
Werfa St. 4.1901
West Luton Place 10.1896
Westville Rd. 11.1907
Westville Walk – 1 house only
Whitaker Rd.,Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Whitmuir Rd., Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Willows Av. ,Tremorfa see “Pengam”
Wilson St. 2.1895
Winborne St. 2.1895 Name changed from Fishguard St. 28.5.1896
Winchester Av. 26.9.1912 J. Conley. 14.12.1811 – new road Visct. Tredegar
Woodcock St. 4.5.1869 6 houses
Woodland Place – formerly Trevethan Place q.v. .
Woodville Rd.East 11.1884 Arch: C.Rigg
Wordsworth Av. 5.12.1865 name changed from Wordsworth St. 3.11.1894
A pre-1861 street. 1861 Census: Houses.7 Inhab.
3 Uninhab.
Zinc St. 2.11.1869
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