BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL

BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381190
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL
Statutory Address:: BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381190
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL
Statutory Address 1:: BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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

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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:: BINSWOOD HALL NORTH LEAMINGTON SCHOOL, BINSWOOD AVENUE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31644 66587

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE 1208-1/3/68 (North side) 25/03/70 Binswood Hall, North Leamington School (Formerly Listed as: BINSWOOD AVENUE (North side) Leamington College)

GV II*

School. 1847-8 by DG Squirhill of Leamington, with later additions and alterations including chapel to rear of c1867 with stained glass in the apse by Holland of 1858, and gymnasium of 1893. Pinkish-red brick with purple brick and ashlar dressings, with Welsh slate and lead roofs. STYLE: Tudor Revival. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 9 bays with basement to left and further entrance range to left, 3 extensions to rear. Main range: to centre 7 bays a single-storey arcade projects, to second and eighth bays are tall, octagonal turrets, then outer gable-ended bays. Chamfered plinth, continuous moulded sill band. Off-set buttresses between bays have pinnacles. Diaper pattern brickwork to facade. Ground floor. Central entrance projects: 4 steps to 4-centre arched double doors with linen-fold panelling and traceried decoration to head, in 4-centre-arched surround with roll-moulding and with quatrefoil decoration in the spandrels; hoodmould has face stops of Sir Francis Bacon and Sir Thomas More; angle buttresses, upshot with the Jephson arms. Arcade has buttresses and battlements; four 3-cusped-light windows in straight-headed, quoined surrounds; band. Turrets have single lights. Outer bays have 4-cinquefoil-light windows with straight-headed surrounds; blind arcades above with coats of arms of benefactors, the Willes, Wise, and Fontayne-Wilson families. First floor: centre range has tall, 6-light windows in two stages with perpendicular-type tracery to heads and continuous hoodmould; turrets have lancet lights in double-chamfered surrounds and continuous hoodmoulds to 3 sides; outer bays have 4-light windows with perpendicular-type tracery to heads in straight-headed surrounds, outer bays have continuous quoined surround through ground and first floors. Battlements to centre range, ogeed tent roofs to turrets, and to end bays are pointed gables with carved plaques. Chamfered copings.

Range to left has entrance, glazed doors in chamfered surround with hoodmould; first floor has casement window, copings to gable. To rear: chapel of 2 storeys, 5 bays and apse. Ground floor has casement windows with double-chamfered, 4-centre-arched surrounds; apse has blind arcade of pointed arches with inserted casements. Buttresses between bays support first-floor projection. First floor: 3 centre bays have 3-light windows with transoms and perpendicular-type tracery to heads in 4-centred, roll-moulded surrounds; end bay has lancet window, otherwise blind; apse has 2-cusped-light, pointed windows in roll-moulded surrounds. INTERIOR: main range has narrow openwell staircase with alternately turned and stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Main hall: approximately 30m x 10m; roof has 6 bays of richly carved beams on corbels; dado with linenfold panelling; continuous cornice, cambered-arched openings to 'cloisters', 3 pointed-arched openings with head-stops (representing Wycliffe, Harvey, Newton and Chaucer) and quatrefoils to spandrels. First floor: former original chapel to left has moulded cornice, dado rail and 3 arches (2 blocked) on columns. Added former chapel to rear has gallery blind tracery to balcony, roll-moulded surrounds to windows, 4-centred hollow-moulded arch to apse with column shafts and brattished capitals; pointed-arched, double doors have linenfold panelling. HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1844 a company was formed to establish a college, larger premises were needed by 1846 the foundation stone of this building was laid on 7 April 1847 by Dr Jephson, opened 1 August 1848. From 1903-1916 it was occupied by the Society of the Sacred Heart, a French Catholic convent school. During the rest of the First World War it was occupied by Dover College, and then once more (1922) Leamington College. Distinguished old boys include Lytton Strachey, the poet DJ Enfield, Sir Frank Whittle (inventor of the jet engine), and international rugby player, Keith Savage. (Leamington College 1902-1977: 1977-: 11-12; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 335).

Listing NGR: SP3164466587

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Legacy System number:: 481550
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Leamington College 1902-1977
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 335

Legal

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