23 AND 25, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381175
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: 23 AND 25, BINSWOOD AVENUE
Statutory Address:: 23 AND 25, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381175
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: 23 AND 25, BINSWOOD AVENUE
Statutory Address 1:: 23 AND 25, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 23 AND 25, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31581 66568

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE 1208-1/3/53 (North side) 25/03/70 Nos.23 AND 25 (Formerly Listed as: BINSWOOD AVENUE (North side) No.23) (Formerly Listed as: BINSWOOD AVENUE (North side) No.25)

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Pair of semi-detached villas. c1828-1834 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with stucco front and side facades, painted to No.25, Welsh slate roof, cast-iron verandahs with lead roof, brass hardware. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 4 first-floor-window range with recessed, 2-lower-storey single window entrance ranges to sides. Quoins to full height of main range to right dwelling (No.25). First floor, main range: 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with moulded architraves and sills on plain corbels. Side range has casement to left, and 2/2 sash in moulded architrave and with sill to right; copings to left, frieze, cornice and blocking course to right. Second floor: 3/6 sashes in plain reveals, with tooled, eared architraves and sills. Ground floor: main range has 6/9 full-height sashes with tooled, eared architraves. Entrance to side bays, 4-panel doors; to right, square Tuscan pillars support further first floor extension to right. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Stepped frieze, cornice, blocking course. Verandah continues from entrance range across front supported on latticed columns and with anthemion-on-rod balustrade. Door to right has lion-knocker and bell-pull. Basement has 8/8 sash. Stepped frieze, cornice, blocking course, copings. End and centre stacks with cornices. INTERIOR: staircases, alike, openwell staircases have alternate stick and rod-with-central-bobbin balusters, wreathed handrail. To No.25: front room has a marble chimneypiece; cornice with grape motif; shutters to windows. Some 4-panel doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: Binswood Avenue was laid out c1828, those houses to the west were completed by 1834. Nos 1-29 (odd) Binswood Avenue (qqv) form an architectural

group. (Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3158166568

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Legacy System number:: 481535
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39
'List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest' in Royal Leamington Spa, (1989)

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