21-27, HIGH STREET

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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Sources

Books and journals
Manning, J C, Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895)
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 28
List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest in Royal Leamington Spa, (1989)

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