Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW BATH STREET
1208-1/12/21 (East side)
19/11/53 Nos.35-49 (Odd)
GV II
Includes: No.4 REGENT PLACE.
Terrace of 7 dwellings, now shops with flats over. Right
return fronts onto High Street. c1818-1836 with later
additions and alterations including mid-C20 ground-floor shop
fronts. Reddish-brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with
painted stucco front and side facades, Welsh slate roofs and
cast-iron balconies.
PLAN: double-depth with side entrances; the facade is
described as U-shaped on plan, (the angles are curved), with
returns to Regent Place and High Street.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 23 first-floor windows with further range
to Regent Place of 3 lower storeys, 1 first-floor window.
The centre and ends of Bath Street facade project slightly.
From left: to first floor, lower range has tall, tripartite
window with 2/2 sash with margin-lights between 2/2 sashes in
plain reveals within architrave of fielded pilasters and
triple frieze, moulded pediment; second floor has tripartite
sash, the centre a 2/2 sash with margin-lights between 1/1
sashes.
Main range, first floor: fielded pilaster strips through
second and first floors to left end, to either side of angle
(5th window), and between 7th and 8th; 11th and 12th; 12th and
13th; 13th and 14th; 17th and 18th; to either side of angle;
19th and 20th; 20th and 21st; and to right end. First floor:
four 4-pane French windows with divided overlight, blind
opening, similar French window, twelve tall 6/9 sashes, blind
opening, 6/9 sash, two 10-pane French windows with divided
overlights and side-lights; all within tooled architraves.
Second floor: four 6/6 sashes, blind opening, otherwise mainly
6/6 sashes except 19th is blind, 20th is a 12-pane casement
and 21st is blind; all in plain reveals, with tooled
architraves (missing to windows 16 and 17) and sills. Frieze,
cornice. Third floor: pilaster strips as before; four 3/6
sashes, blind opening, three 3/6 sashes, two 6/6 sashes, seven
3/6 sashes, casement window, blind opening, casement window,
blind opening, casement window; all in plain reveals and the
first 15 have tooled architraves. All windows to angles are
curved on plan. Cornice, frieze, copings; pilasters are
surmounted by acroteria. Ground floor has C20 glazed shop
fronts throughout.
Continuous balcony with Carron Company
double-heart-and-anthemion motif across windows 12, 13 and 14
of main range (to centre of Bath Street facade); balconettes
have circle-and-anthemion motif to windows 15 and 16. Tall
ridge and rear stacks with cornices.
Rear: to No.41 a 9/9 staircase sash; to No.47 a 12/12
staircase sash; otherwise mainly 6/6 sashes to 1st and 2nd
floors, some 8/8 sashes, and mainly 3/6 sashes to 3rd floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Bath Street was a main street of the C18
village of Leamington.
Forms an architectural group with Nos 29-33 (odd) Bath Street,
Nos 1, 3 and 5 Regent Place and with Nos 21-27 (odd) High
Street (qqv).
(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington
Spa: 1970-).
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW REGENT PLACE
1208-1/12/21 (South side)
19/11/53 No.4
GV II
See under: Nos.35-49 BATH STREET.
Listing NGR: SP3200765261