Stanley House

13, KENILWORTH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381180
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Stanley House
Statutory Address:
13, KENILWORTH ROAD
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381180
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Stanley House
Statutory Address 1:
13, KENILWORTH ROAD
Statutory Address 2:
STANLEY HOUSE, 45, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
13, KENILWORTH ROAD
Statutory Address:
STANLEY HOUSE, 45, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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 31752 66581

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE
1208-1/3/58 (North side)
25/03/70 No.45
Stanley House

GV II

Includes: No.13 KENILWORTH ROAD.
2 houses, now house and offices. c1836 with later additions
and alterations. Probably built by Samuel Bird. Brick with
painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron
verandahs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 6 first-floor windows, 3 to
each house.
First floor: continuous band, 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with
sills and tooled architraves, those 3 to left have frieze and
cornice.
To right dwelling: frieze and cornice.
Second floor: 3/6 sashes in plain reveals with tooled
architraves and sills, those 3 to right have blind boxes.
Cornice to left, copings throughout.
Ground floor: 5 tall 6/9 sashes in plain reveals, those 2 to
left have tooled architraves, those 3 to right have blind
boxes.
Entrances: (No.45 Binswood Avenue) to left, steps to 3-panel
door with side-lights with cambered overlight with
glazing-bars; (No.13 Kenilworth Road) to right gable end,
steps to central entrance a 3-panel door with side-lights and
continuous overlight in plain reveals with tooled architrave.
Concealed basements. Tall end and centre stacks with cornices.
Ground floor has 2 continuous verandahs, one to each house,
with decorative balusters and barleytwist uprights and frieze.
Gable end to right has continuous first-floor band, frieze and
cornice, with 3/6 sash in plain reveals to gable.
To rear: 6/6, 3/6, 2/2 sashes, with 6/6 staircase sash with
margin-lights to No.45 and long 4/4 staircase sash to No.13,
all in plain reveals and with sills.
INTERIOR: No.45 retains original plasterwork including
cornices to some rooms, that to front ground floor has frieze,
cornice and ceiling rose; shutters; barrel vaulted cellars.
Otherwise not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Binswood Avenue was laid out c1828 and most
houses to the west were built by 1834. Nos 31-45 (odd)
Binswood Avenue (qqv) with No.13 Kenilworth Road (qv) form a
group. Occupies an important corner site.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:

Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).


ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE KENILWORTH ROAD
1208-1/3/58 (West side)
25/03/70 No.13

GV II

See under: No.45 Stanley House BINSWOOD AVENUE.

Listing NGR: SP3175266581

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
481540
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)

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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