21-27, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381308
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: 21-27, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: 21-27, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381308
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: 21-27, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 21-27, HIGH STREET

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:: 21-27, HIGH 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 32035 65242

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW HIGH STREET 1208-1/12/173 (North side) 25/03/70 Nos.21-27 (Odd)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now houses and shops. c1818-1836 with later additions and alterations including later C19 and C20 shop fronts. Brick with painted stucco facades with concealed roofs and cast-iron balconies. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, that to right to corner curved on plan. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor at right, surmounted by tall pilaster strips with sunk panel to first and second floors to left and corner of this house and with similar pilasters to third floor, that to left surmounted by segmental pediment. First floor: two 10-pane French windows with overlights with glazing bars; two multi-pane casement windows; four 10-pane French windows with divided overlights all with margin-lights; to angle a 6/9 sash, curved on plan; all in plain reveals and with tooled architraves. Second floor: nine 6/6 sashes, that to right angle curved on plan. Frieze, cornice and third-floor sill band continues around right return. Third floor: seven 3/6 sashes, blind opening, no opening to angle, all in plain reveals and with tooled architraves. Frieze, moulded to Nos 23 & 25, missing to No.27; cornice moulded to Nos 25 and 27. Ground floor: to left (No.21) has a part-glazed, off-centre door in canted, glazed shop front with pilasters to left and continuous frieze. Then (No.23), off-centre double-doors in panelled surround with overlight with margin-lights within shop front with plate glass windows with similar overlights; further entrance to right a 4-panel door with divided overlight. Next (No.25) has to left a 4-panel door with overlight with lozenge glazing bars, shop front has part-glazed door with overlight and window with round-arched glazing. No.27 has left entrance a 6-panel double-door with fanlight; plate glass window; further similar entrance to angle. Tall end and rear stacks with cornices. Right return: 3 first-floor windows. Similar pilasters to right end. Ground floor has three 6/6 sashes; first, second and third floors have central blind window; first floor has tall 6/9 sashes, second floor has 6/6 sashes, third floor has 8/8 and 3/6 sashes. First, second and third floors are in

plain reveals and have tooled architraves, those to second floor have sills. Continuous balconies to first floor: No.21 has circle-and-anthemion motif; No.25 has double-harp-and-wheel motif; No.27 has balcony that continues around right return with circle-and-anthemion-motif. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: High Street was laid out c1810-1813, first known as Warwick Row, it formed part of the former High Road from Warwick to London. Nos 29-33 (odd) and Nos 35-49, Bath Street together with Nos 21-27 (odd) High Street (qqv) form an architectural unit. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 28; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-).

Listing NGR: SP3203565242

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Legacy System number:: 481668
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 28
Manning, J C , Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895)
'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.