The Guards Inn
THE GUARDS INN, 45, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381309
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Guards Inn
- Statutory Address:
- THE GUARDS INN, 45, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381309
- Date first listed:
- 12-Apr-1995
- List Entry Name:
- The Guards Inn
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GUARDS INN, 45, HIGH STREET
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:
- THE GUARDS INN, 45, 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 32114 65220
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW HIGH STREET
1208-1/12/174 (North side)
12/04/95 No.45
The Guards Inn
II
Public house, probably former shop and house. Early-mid C19
with later additions and alterations. Reddish-brown brick in
Flemish bond, with painted stucco to ground floor, front
facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor:
central part-glazed door, otherwise 6/6 sashes. Second floor:
2/2 sashes. All windows in plain reveals and with sills.
Ground floor: pair of off-centre entrances, part-glazed doors
with overlights with margin-lights in fielded-panel reveals
and within common doorcase with fluted architrave. To left a
casement window in plain reveals and with sills. To right a
shop front with central blocked part-glazed entrance between 2
casements, all with fielded panels beneath and with pilaster
strips between, frieze and cornice. Modillion eaves cornice,
right end stack with cornice. Gothick balcony to first-floor
central opening.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: High Street was laid out c1810-1813 and first
known as Warwick Row, it formed part of the High Road from
Warwick to London.
(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: SP3211465220
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481669
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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)
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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