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Listed rows, cellars and shared floors
16.6 listed entries per 1,000 Windsor dwellings, 12th of 135 towns. What listing, cellars, converted houses, flats and borough flood risk mean for a floor.
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16.6
listed entries per 1,000 homes
12th highest of 135 towns
Historic England, 2026-09-21 · all local facts →Windsor's built-up area has 16.6 listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings, against 14.7 for England, which puts it 12th of 135 towns.
That one figure changes the order in which a new floor gets chosen. In a listed building, works that alter its character can need listed building consent, and the requirement reaches inside as well as out: taking up original boards or blocks can count. So before oak, vinyl or underlay come into it, find out whether your house is on the list.
If it is, what stays and what comes up is a question for the borough council's conservation officer, and the new floor follows from the answer. The rest of the page turns to cellars, divided houses, blocks of flats, lets, flood risk and hot summers.
At a glance
Windsor at a glance
Homes in Windsor
8 chapters on Windsor homes and what they ask of a floor · about 5 min read
01/ 08
Consent comes first: listed entries, Grade II* and the conservation areas
The higher grades are well represented as well. Grade I and II* entries come to 1.4 per 1,000 dwellings in the built-up area, 19th of 135 towns, where England as a whole has 1.2. Inside the Inner Windsor conservation area alone, the council's appraisal counts 177 individual listed properties and features, and together they make up 36 entries on the statutory list.
For a listed house the sequence is short. Speak to the conservation officer before the old floor is lifted, not once it has gone, and agree what may be taken up, repaired or covered over. Only then is it worth comparing finishes.
Conservation areas are a different instrument. The borough council lists 27 of them across the Royal Borough, Inner Windsor, Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent and Windsor Town Centre among them. Conservation-area rules govern the exterior of a building, so a new floor inside an unlisted house in one of those areas is not what they are concerned with. Listing is the designation that can reach indoors.
02/ 08
- 18.5%built before 1900
Kings Road cellars and the side streets of Inner Windsor
The Inner Windsor appraisal divides its area into major and minor streets. Along the major roads, Kings Road and Frances Road among them, most dwellings are three storeys high with cellars. On its minor streets, most dwellings were built between the mid to late 19th century and the First World War.
Across the whole built-up area, 18.5% of dwellings date from before 1900, against 15.5% for England and Wales, 31st of 141 towns. A house of that generation shares with later pre-war houses a ground floor that a new build lacks: timber boards resting on joists, with a ventilated void beneath. Air moving through that void is what keeps the timber dry, and it only moves while the airbricks in the outside walls are open. Check that no raised path or patio has covered them.
A cellar helps. The age of a house tells you which rooms sit above which and what the joists are likely to be made of; from the cellar you can see the underside of the floor you mean to cover, and anything damp or loose, before a pack is opened.
03/ 08
- 5.4%in a converted flat
Trinity Place since 1828: basements, villas and upper-floor flats
The Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent appraisal dates the first series of properties in that conservation area, on Clarence Crescent and Clarence Road, from 1828. The villas of Trinity Place, Clarence Road and Claremont Road are usually three storeys tall, with basements and small front gardens. The same document notes a tendency over time to turn the ground floor of large properties over to business uses and the floors above into flats.
Across the built-up area, 5.4% of households live in a flat in a converted or shared house or another converted building, against 4.2% for England and Wales, 25th of 151 towns. In a flat of that kind the floor under your feet is the ceiling of the flat below, and it may be a timber joist floor rather than a concrete slab. The two respond differently to the same covering, so establish which one you have first.
04/ 08
Re-fronted timber frames by the Castle, raised doorways on Park Street
The town centre appraisal places the largest group of surviving timber-framed medieval buildings, some from the early 16th century, in the small streets by the Castle, and records that most of them have been re-fronted. A later front can stand on a much older frame, so the elevation facing the street says little about the floors behind it.
When old boards in a building like that stay down and a new floor is laid over them, the new floor inherits every fault underneath: a board that rocks, a dip, a squeak at the threshold. Secure whatever moves first; in a listed building, agree the method with the conservation officer.
Park Street has an arrangement of its own. The appraisal records that many properties there have part basement floors and raised ground floor entrances, so the front door is reached by climbing up from the pavement. The type of house decides which rooms get wet and how much grit crosses the threshold; in a house entered this way, the hall takes everything the street brings in.
05/ 08
- 31.4%live in a flat
- 24.7%in a purpose-built flat
Flats, maisonettes and purpose-built blocks: 31.4% of households
Flats, maisonettes and apartments are home to 31.4% of Windsor households, against 21.7% for England and Wales, 31st of 151 towns. Purpose-built blocks of flats or tenements alone hold 24.7% of households, 32nd of 151 towns, where England and Wales has 16.7%.
In any flat, a footstep on a hard floor passes through the structure into the ceiling of the home below, and it carries further than it did on the carpet the new floor replaces. The underlay is where that is handled, so compare underlays by their impact sound figure.
The separating floor of a purpose-built flat has to meet stricter airborne and impact sound figures than the floor of a flat formed by converting a house. A hard covering on top changes the impact side of that, so in a block the hidden layer matters as much as the boards.
06/ 08
- 24.5%rent privately
Private lets: specifying for tenants not yet signed
24.5% of households in the built-up area rent privately, above the 20.3% for England and Wales and 43rd of 151 towns. Choosing a floor for a let is a different calculation from choosing one for yourself. The people who will live on it have not moved in yet, and a poor choice shows only years later, at the end of a tenancy.
Start with the rooms where water and grit arrive, the kitchen, the bathroom and the entrance, and specify those for the tenancy after next rather than the first one.
07/ 08
Flood risk across the borough and the joints in any floor
Across the borough, 24.8% of homes are in areas at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, against 4.7% for England, joint 3rd of 135 towns. That is a figure for the whole local authority, not for the town on its own, and whether a given street is in a risk area is a matter for the official flood maps.
If your home is in one, plan the ground floor on the understanding that no floor installation keeps water out. Water reaches the subfloor through the joints between planks and through the perimeter gap at the walls, whatever the planks are made of. A floor listed as waterproof means the material itself takes up no water; it does not seal the joints, and the screed or the joists beneath can still get wet.
08/ 08
- 22.8days above 25 °C
- 14.7days with 10 mm of rain or more
Hot summer days, fewer wet ones and new screeds
The town centre averages 22.8 days a year above twenty-five degrees (1991 to 2020 average), against a median of 13.8 days for the 151 towns, 8th of 151. A conservatory or garden room already swings between hot afternoons and cold nights, and with that many hot days the hot end of the swing is no rare event here. Leave the expansion gap the maker's instructions ask for.
Wet days run the other way. The town centre has 14.7 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more (1991 to 2020 average), below the median of 17.8 for the 151 towns and 116th of 151. On those days grit and rain still come through the door together, so a mat well inside the entrance is worth having.
Across the borough, 7.2 new homes were completed in the year per 1,000 existing homes, against 5.5 for England, joint 29th of 135 towns. In a newly finished home the screed looks ready long before it is: flat, pale, taking a footprint without a mark, yet still holding more water than anything else in the building. Have it tested rather than trusting its looks before any wood or laminate goes down.
Floor by floor
What Windsor's listed rows, cellars and flats ask of nineteen floors
19 floors, rooms and needs, each with a note written for Windsor homes. Pick one to read it.
Floor types
Floor typeWindsor
Engineered Wood
In a flat in a converted house, where the separating floor may be timber joists, engineered boards wait until the underlay has been chosen for the flat below.
Floor typeWindsor
Solid Wood
Solid boards suit the joists of a house built before 1900, 18.5% of the town's dwellings, once the airbricks are known to be clear.
Floor typeWindsor
Parquet
Lifting original blocks in a listed house can need consent, so new parquet there starts with a conversation with the conservation officer.
Floor typeWindsor
Laminate
Where a Park Street front door sits above a raised entrance, laminate in the hall needs a wear rating set for the grit the street brings up the steps.
Floor typeWindsor
LVT Vinyl
Vinyl tiles in a purpose-built block, where 24.7% of households live, still need an underlay matched to the impact sound the flat below will hear.
Floor typeWindsor
SPC Rigid Vinyl
In a private let, home to 24.5% of households here, a rigid-core floor is specified for future tenants too.
Rooms
RoomWindsor
Hallway
On the 14.7 days a year with ten millimetres of rain or more, grit and rain reach the hall together, so it gets the toughest floor in the house.
RoomWindsor
Kitchen
In a flood risk area, a kitchen floor listed as waterproof protects the covering, not what lies beneath it.
RoomWindsor
Living Room
Where a living room sits over a cellar, as on Inner Windsor's major roads, inspect its floor from underneath first.
RoomWindsor
Bedroom
An upper-floor bedroom in a large house now divided into flats is someone else's ceiling, so a quiet underlay counts for more there than the finish.
RoomWindsor
Bathroom
In a flat a bathroom spill can reach the ceiling below, and with 31.4% of households in flats the bathroom floor is chosen with the neighbours in mind.
RoomWindsor
Utility Room
A utility room in a let, where a leaking machine may go unreported for a while, wants a floor listed as waterproof.
RoomWindsor
Conservatory
A conservatory here sees 22.8 days a year above twenty-five degrees, 8th of 151 towns, so its floor has to cope with heat as well as cold nights.
Patterns & needs
Pattern or needWindsor
Herringbone
Herringbone over old boards in a re-fronted house picks up every fault beneath, so rocking boards are secured first.
Pattern or needWindsor
Chevron
Conservation-area rules end at the outside walls, so chevron inside an unlisted house in one of the borough's 27 conservation areas is decided by the subfloor and your own taste.
Pattern or needWindsor
Waterproof
With 24.8% of the borough's homes in areas at risk from rivers or the sea, a floor listed as waterproof means the planks take up no water, though the joints still let it through.
Pattern or needWindsor
Underfloor Heating
A heated floor in a newly completed home waits until the screed has tested dry; across the borough 7.2 homes per 1,000 were completed in the year.
Pattern or needWindsor
Pet-Friendly
Claws on a hard floor in a flat are heard in the ceiling below, so in a block a dog owner picks the underlay as carefully as the finish.
Pattern or needWindsor
Grey
Grey is a colour, not a construction, so in a listed house the conservation officer's answer on the old floor comes before the shade.
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Questions
Questions about flooring in Windsor
Do I need consent to lift the old boards in a listed Windsor house?
Possibly. Works that affect a listed building's character can need listed building consent, inside as well as out, and lifting original boards or blocks can count. With 16.6 listed entries per 1,000 dwellings in the built-up area, ask the conservation officer before the floor comes up.
Does a conservation area address limit the floor I can lay indoors?
Not on its own. The borough council lists 27 conservation areas across the Royal Borough, and their rules deal with the outside of buildings. It is listing, where it applies, that can bring the floor inside into question.
What should I check before a hard floor goes into a Windsor flat?
What the separating floor is made of and the underlay's impact sound figure. 31.4% of households here live in a flat, and 5.4% in a flat in a converted or shared house or another converted building, where that floor may be timber joists.
Is a floor listed as waterproof enough in a home at flood risk?
It stops the material taking up water, not water passing the joints or the perimeter gap. Across the borough 24.8% of homes are in areas at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Can a floor go straight onto the screed of a newly built home?
Not until a test shows the screed is dry, because a new screed looks finished long before it is. Across the borough 7.2 homes per 1,000 were completed in the year, against 5.5 for England.
Local facts
Local facts: Windsor
20 facts from the census, the Met Office, the council and other public records, each with what it means for a floor in Windsor and where it comes from.
Heritage & plans
16.6
listed entries per 1,000 homes
Windsor16.6England14.712th highest of 135 towns
For your floorWith 16.6 listed entries per 1,000 Windsor dwellings, lifting original boards or blocks may need consent, so listing is checked before any floor is chosen.
Source
Listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings. Area: Windsor built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). Historic England, National Heritage List for England, listed building entries. Data: 2026-09-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Heritage & plans
1.4 per 1,000 dwellings
Grade I and II* listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings
Windsor1.4England1.219th highest of 135 towns
For your floorWindsor's Grade I and II* entries mean the conservation officer is asked about the old floor before it is lifted.
Source
Grade I and II* listed building entries per 1,000 dwellings. Area: Windsor built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). Historic England, National Heritage List for England, listed building entries. Data: 2026-09-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Heritage & plans
Conservation areas
The borough council lists 27 designated conservation areas across the Royal Borough, among them Inner Windsor, Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent and Windsor Town Centre.
For your floorThe 27 conservation areas across the Royal Borough govern the outside of buildings, so an unlisted Windsor house keeps its indoor floor choice.
Source
Area: Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead (borough council area). Conservation areas (web page). Data: undated web page (content as retrieved 2026-10-21) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Heritage & plans
Conservation areas
The council's appraisal counts 177 individual listed properties and features in the Inner Windsor conservation area, making up 36 entries on the statutory list.
For your floorInner Windsor's 177 listed properties and features show how often a house there may be listed, which decides whether old boards can come up.
Source
Area: Inner Windsor conservation area, Windsor. Conservation Area Appraisal: Inner Windsor. Data: adopted May 2015 (supplementary planning guidance); the foreword names Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent in error, the body text is the Inner Windsor appraisal · retrieved 2026-10-21.
When they were built
Building period
The Inner Windsor appraisal records that most dwellings on the conservation area's minor streets were built between the mid to late 19th century and the First World War.
For your floorDating Inner Windsor's minor streets tells you what kind of joists and room layout to expect before a new floor is planned.
Source
Area: Minor streets of the Inner Windsor conservation area, Windsor. Conservation Area Appraisal: Inner Windsor. Data: adopted May 2015 (supplementary planning guidance); the foreword names Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent in error, the body text is the Inner Windsor appraisal · retrieved 2026-10-21.
When they were built
Building period
The Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent appraisal dates the first series of properties in the conservation area, on Clarence Crescent and Clarence Road, from 1828.
For your floorHouses on Clarence Crescent and Clarence Road from 1828 come with the floor structure of their age, which sets which rooms sit above which.
Source
Area: Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent conservation area, Windsor. Conservation Area Appraisal: Trinity Place/ Clarence Crescent. Data: adopted May 2015 (supplementary planning guidance) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Homes
Housing type
The Inner Windsor appraisal records that most dwellings along the conservation area's major roads, such as Kings Road and Frances Road, are three storeys high with cellars.
For your floorThree-storey houses with cellars on Inner Windsor's major roads let you inspect a ground floor from below before choosing what goes on it.
Source
Area: Major streets of the Inner Windsor conservation area, Windsor. Conservation Area Appraisal: Inner Windsor. Data: adopted May 2015 (supplementary planning guidance); the foreword names Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent in error, the body text is the Inner Windsor appraisal · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Homes
Housing type
The appraisal describes the villas of Trinity Place, Clarence Road and Claremont Road as usually three storeys tall, with basements and small front gardens.
For your floorThe tall Trinity Place villas with basements shape which rooms get wet and where the grit enters, room by room.
Source
Area: Trinity Place, Clarence Road and Claremont Road (Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent conservation area, Windsor). Conservation Area Appraisal: Trinity Place/ Clarence Crescent. Data: adopted May 2015 (supplementary planning guidance) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Homes
Housing type
The town centre appraisal records that many properties in Park Street have part basement floors and raised ground floor entrances.
For your floorRaised entrances in Park Street put the hall in the path of whatever the street brings in, so it needs the hardest-wearing floor.
Source
Area: Park Street (Windsor Town Centre conservation area). Conservation Area Appraisal: Windsor Town Centre (part one of six). Data: adopted November 2009 · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Homes
Housing type
The Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent appraisal notes a tendency over time to turn the ground floor of large properties over to business uses and the floors above into flats.
For your floorLarge Trinity Place properties with their upper floors turned into flats make one household's floor another's ceiling.
Source
Area: Trinity Place/Clarence Crescent conservation area, Windsor. Conservation Area Appraisal: Trinity Place/ Clarence Crescent. Data: adopted May 2015 (supplementary planning guidance) · retrieved 2026-10-21.
Heritage & plans
Construction and materials
The town centre appraisal places the largest group of surviving timber-framed medieval buildings, some from the early 16th century, in the small streets by the Castle, and records that most have been re-fronted.
For your floorBehind a re-fronted Windsor facade the old boards may remain, and a new floor laid over them inherits their condition.
Source
Area: Small medieval streets near the Castle (Windsor Town Centre conservation area). Conservation Area Appraisal: Windsor Town Centre (part one of six). Data: adopted November 2009 · retrieved 2026-10-21.
When they were built
18.5%
built before 1900
Windsor18.5%England and Wales15.5%31st highest of 141 towns
For your floorWindsor's dwellings from before 1900 share with later pre-war houses a ground floor of boards on joists over a void that open airbricks keep dry.
Source
Dwellings built before 1900. Area: Windsor built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025, table CTSOP4.1 (build period). Data: 2025-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Who lives here
24.5%
rent privately
Windsor24.5%England and Wales20.3%43rd highest of 151 towns
For your floorWindsor's private landlords choose floors for tenants yet to come, and a poor choice only shows years later.
Source
Households renting privately. Area: Windsor built-up area (ONS Built-up Areas 2024). ONS, Census 2021, TS054 Tenure (households). Data: 2021-03-21 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Weather & ground
22.8
days above 25 °C
Windsor22.8Median, 151 towns13.88th highest of 151 towns
For your floorWindsor's run of hot days takes a conservatory floor to the hot end of its yearly swing again and again.
Source
Days above 25 degrees C per year (1991-2020 average, town centre). Area: Windsor town centre (Met Office HadUK-Grid 2 km cell). Met Office, HadUK-Grid climate averages 1991-2020 (climate data portal). Data: 1991-2020 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
Weather & ground
14.7
days with 10 mm of rain or more
Windsor14.7Median, 151 towns17.8116th highest of 151 towns
For your floorOn Windsor's days with ten millimetres of rain or more, grit and water reach the hall floor together.
Source
Days with at least 10 mm of rain per year (1991–2020 average, town centre). Area: Windsor town centre (Met Office HadUK-Grid 2 km cell). Met Office, HadUK-Grid (v1.1.0.0) climate averages 1991-2020, Met Office Climate Data Portal: Monthly Temperature Observations 1991-2020 (2 km grid), Monthly Min Temperature Observations 1991-2020 12km (12 km grid), Annual Count of 10mm Rainfall Days 1991-2020 (2 km grid). Data: 1991-2020 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
When they were built
7.2 per 1,000 dwellings
New homes completed in the year per 1,000 existing homes
Windsor7.2England5.5joint 29th highest of 135 towns
For your floorNew homes completed across the borough have screeds that look dry long before they are, so a floor in Windsor waits for a test.
Source
New homes completed in the year per 1,000 existing homes. Area: Windsor and Maidenhead local authority. MHCLG, Live tables on housing supply: indicators of new supply, Table 253 "Permanent dwellings started and completed, by tenure and district", sheet FY_2025_26, column "All Completions" (building control reported, rounded to the nearest 10 by MHCLG); per 1,000 dwellings in Live Table 125 (dwelling stock at 31 March 2025). Data: 2025-04-01/2026-03-31 · retrieved 2026-09-22.
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