The Parthenon
THE PARTHENON, 50, 52 AND 54, BATH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381141
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- The Parthenon
- Statutory Address:
- THE PARTHENON, 50, 52 AND 54, BATH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381141
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- The Parthenon
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PARTHENON, 50, 52 AND 54, BATH 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:
- THE PARTHENON, 50, 52 AND 54, BATH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31970 65283
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165SE BATH STREET
1208-1/8/24 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.50, 52 AND 54
The Parthenon
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH STREET
(West side)
No.50)
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH STREET
(West side)
No.52
The Parthenon)
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH STREET
(West side)
No.54)
GV II
Royal Assembly Rooms and then the Royal Music Hall, known as
The Parthenon, now shops. c1821 by Samuel Beazley, London
theatre architect and dramatist for R Elliston, the manager of
the Drury Lane Theatre. Facades restored and repaired after
1960s fire damage, rebuilt to rear, late C20 ground-floor shop
fronts. Brick with painted stucco front facades, unpainted to
left (No.50) and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron balcony to
centre range.
EXTERIOR: central range of 4 storeys, 5 first-floor windows,
between symmetrical ranges of 3 storeys, 1 first-floor window.
Central range projects and has quoins to angles; first floor
has 6-pane French windows with divided overlights in taller,
tooled, round-arched architraves. Second floor: 6/6 sashes
with sills. Third floor: 3/6 radial-headed sashes with sills.
Between second and third floors an inscription panel with
'PARTHENON' in raised letters. Dentil frieze, cornice. Side
ranges: first floor has tall tripartite window, 6/6 between
2/2 sashes in taller, cambered arched reveals. Second floor:
tripartite window, 6-pane centre with 2-pane side-lights. All
windows in plain reveals. Frieze, cornice, low parapet. Glazed
entrances in plate-glass shop-fronts to ground floor.
Continuous balcony to first floor, central range has
round-arched arcade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington
Spa: 1970-).
Listing NGR: SP3197065283
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481501
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest in Royal Leamington Spa, (1989)
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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