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"This conservation area particularly interested me. It was where many of the weavers and their families lived and worked in the early 19th Century. This is good straightforward Georgian housing that a city like Cardiff would give its eye teeth for. Attractive, and originally, nicely detailed. Sandra Jones, the conservationist, described this area to me as suffering from, 'incremental mondernisation.' As she pointed out, so rightly, the character of these charming houses has been threatened and sometimes lost by inappropriate modern materials and rennovation. Windows are the giveaway when it comes to restoring historic buildings. PVC modern windows are used too often, and so badly, when replacing timber sash windows. I know that properly rennovating timber windows is expensive and far from easy, but windows are the 'eyes' of the house and they express it soul. Buildings of this period should be treasured and character should not be sacrificed to cost and mere convenience."
Malcolm Parry