LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB

LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB, 50, BEDFORD STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381165
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB
Statutory Address:: LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB, 50, BEDFORD STREET

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Date:: 2005-04-07
Reference:: IOE01/14198/27
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381165
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB, 50, BEDFORD STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LEAMINGTON REAL TENNIS CLUB, 50, BEDFORD 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 31693 65829

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE BEDFORD STREET 1208-1/7/44 (West side) 25/03/70 No.50 Leamington Real Tennis Club

GV II*

Tennis and billiard club. Real tennis court of 1846 with club house of 1847 and alterations of 1854. Architect: John George Jackson of Newbold Lodge, Leamington. Pinkish-brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with painted stucco front facade, unpainted stucco to right extension and Welsh slate roof. PLAN: (original): off-centre hall with smoking room to right and reading room to left, billiard room to rear right and real tennis court to rear left. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, those three to right are set back. Plinth to right. Extension to right of 2 storeys, 1 blind window and further single-storey extension. Entrance beneath 7th window a 6-panel door with rusticated surround and with Doric porch of paired engaged pilasters, frieze, metopes, dentil cornice. Six 6/6 sashes some with original etched glass, in plain reveals and with sills and tooled architraves with frieze and cornice. To right are two 3/6 sashes with sills, in tooled surrounds, continuous frieze and cornice. First floor: 1/1 sashes with sills, in tooled surrounds throughout, continuous sill band to three right windows. Frieze, cornice, moulded above 3 right windows and with blocking course. Ridge and end stacks. INTERIOR: dining room to rear, the former billiard room, has apse to end with marble fireplace, dado rail, moulded cornice, peep-holes to doors. Tennis court through two storeys has balustrade to front and left side with turned posts; large tripartite window has three 12-pane lights to first floor. 4-panel doors. Openwell staircase has cast-iron balustrade with paterae motif and wreathed handrail. Hall has Coalbrookdale tile floor. Reading rooms to front. Dr Jephson and Lord Brooke were among the committee members who promoted the Tennis Court. Approx. »2,000 was raised by shares. HISTORICAL NOTE: this is the oldest public gentleman's tennis club, the first game was played on 29 December 1847. Jackson was sent by the Committee to inspect the tennis court in the Haymarket, London, before proceeding. Bedford Street was laid out by 1810, first called Frost Street, its present name was adopted before 1834. (Noel EB and Clark JOM: A History of Tennis: London: 1924-;

Tennis Club Committee Minutes: 1844-1848).

Listing NGR: SP3169365829

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 481525
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Noel, E B, Clark, J O M, A History of Tennis, (1924)
Other
Committee Minutes: 1844-1848,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.