Somerset House and Attached Railings
11, WARWICK STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381240
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- 11, WARWICK STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381240
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Somerset House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11, WARWICK STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SOMERSET HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14, CLARENDON PLACE
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:
- 11, WARWICK STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERSET HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 14, CLARENDON PLACE
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 31446 66080
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3166SW CLARENDON PLACE
1208-1/1/107 (West side)
25/03/70 No.14
Somerset House and attached railings
GV II
Includes: No.11 WARWICK STREET.
House, now offices and attached railings. 1836-1837 with
late-C20 alterations and restoration. By William Startin.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Stepped plinth
surmounted by full-height pilasters with anthemion decoration
to cornice. Frieze with egg-and-dart moulding, cornice,
blocking course.
First floor has 12/12 sashes with eared architraves. Second
floor has 12/12 sashes with anthemion horns.
Ground floor: steps to central entrance an 8-panel door with
sidelights and slender pilasters, modillion cornice and
overlight with glazing bars.
Distyle Adamesque porch with frieze with laurel wreaths,
cornice, blocking course. Tall 6/9 sashes in architraves with
acanthus decoration.
Left return has similar fenestration.
INTERIOR: moulded cornices to some ground-floor rooms.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet railings.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as left-hand block of proposed Arbenie
Cresent. Part of rear burnt down during early C20.
Clarendon Place was laid out in 1825.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 58).
Listing NGR: SP3144666080
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39 58
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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