Landor House
LANDOR HOUSE, 5, SMITH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185233
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Landor House
- Statutory Address:
- LANDOR HOUSE, 5, SMITH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1185233
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Landor House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LANDOR HOUSE, 5, SMITH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- LANDOR HOUSE, 5, SMITH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Warwick
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 28431 65014
Details
1. 1781 SMITH STREET (North Side) No 5 (Landor House) SP 2865 SW 3/236 10.1.53.
II* GV
2. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864) essayist and poet, was born here. Good 1692-3 early C18 symmetrical brick facade with stone dressings. Heavy painted wood cornice at eaves with carved modillions and egg-and-tongue enrichment. Rusticated stone quoins, plain stone string band at first floor, moulded stone plinth. Probably late C18 sashes in moulded frames with wide spaced glazing bars (2 panes wide, 4 panes high), in brick reveals with stone keystones, cutter flat arches. Projecting side wings, each 2 window wide. Central 3 window portion has good entrance doorway with painted stone surround. It has segmental pediment, carved console brackets, bolection moulded architrave with stone keyblock, large 6-fielded- panelled door and good semi-circular fanlight. Wrought iron railings are simple in character but overthrow is of ornamental scrollwork. Three plain gabled dormers in hipped roof of old tiles. VCH, viii, p.443. Interior contains excellent staircase of 1692 panelled entrance hall, first floor sitting room and headmistress's study.
Nos 1, 3 and 5 form a group
Listing NGR: SP2843165014
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 307648
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Doubleday, AH, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Warwick, (1969), 443
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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