Former Town Hall
FORMER TOWN HALL, 54, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381310
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Former Town Hall
- Statutory Address:
- FORMER TOWN HALL, 54, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381310
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Former Town Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORMER TOWN HALL, 54, 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:
- FORMER TOWN HALL, 54, 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 32168 65169
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW HIGH STREET
1208-1/12/175 (South side)
19/11/53 No.54
Former Town Hall
II
Town hall, then police station, now club. Built 1830-31 with
later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco
facades and Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical Classical design.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 3-first-floor
windows to centre with projecting, single-window ranges joined
by distyle fluted Ionic portico in antis. Horizontal
rustication to right floor, basement.
Flight of 10 steps to central entrance, 4-panel double doors
with overlight in tooled surround with cornice on corbels.
To left a further entrance a 4-panel door inserted to left in
taller, wider surround with plain reveals. To right a blind
window.
First floor has outer blind windows and central 3/1 sash.
Wings have 6/6 sashes to ground floor and 3/1 and 3/3 sashes
to first floor. All windows with sills and in plain reveals.
Basement has 10/10 sashes to wings.
Continuous frieze, moulded cornice-parapet. Roof dormer to
attic, partly concealed. Hipped roof. End and ridge stacks
with cornices.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: foundation stone laid 24 June 1830, the Town
Hall was used for the first time on 27 June 1831. High Street,
first known as Warwick Row, was laid out 1810-1813 and formed
part of the former High Road from Warwick to London.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our local past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 27-28; Dept of the
Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 335).
Listing NGR: SP3216865169
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481670
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 335
Manning, J C, Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895)
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 27-28
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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