LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE

LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE, 79 AND 81, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381313
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE, 79 AND 81, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381313
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE, 79 AND 81, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LANSDOWNE HOUSE AND ABERDEEN HOUSE, 79 AND 81, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)

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 32284 66069

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW HOLLY WALK (UPPER) 1208-1/4/178 (North side) 25/03/70 Nos.79 AND 81 Lansdowne House (No.79) and Aberdeen House (No.81)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now flats and house. Dated 1836 to centre. No.81 by William Thomas for himself. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof. STYLE: Neo-Tudor. EXTERIOR: main range of 3 storeys, 3 bays, with 2-storey, single-bay range to left, basements. Quoins to angles. Main range: central projection between canted bays which rise from basements through ground and first floors, outer single-storey, projecting porches. First floor, from left range: sill band on lion corbels; mullion and transom window in moulded reveals with quoined surround; narrow 1/1 sash; canted bay has central 1/1 sash with margin-lights between 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and with quoined surround; mullion and transom window in tooled reveals with quoined surround; bay has three 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and with quoined surround. Bays surmounted by pierced diaper pattern balustrade. Second floor: 3 mullion and transom windows in tooled reveals and with quoined surrounds. Ground floor, main range: end entrances (alike): 2 roll-edged steps to part-glazed, 3-panel door with 4-centred overlight with margin-lights; within porch with moulded, 4-centred opening; male caryatid pilasters support frieze with griffins to left and masks to right, surmounted by finials. Windows, from left: 1/1 sash with margin-lights in tooled reveals with sill and quoins; bay has central 1/1 sash with margin-lights between 1/1 sashes, in plain reveals and with quoined surround; pair of 1/1 sashes in tooled reveals and with quoined surround; bay has three 1/1 sashes. Basement: bays have 1/1 sashes, otherwise casements. Left range surmounted by cornice, frieze and cornice with lozenge and pyramidal finials. Main range: outer bays have curvilinear gable ends with tooled surrounds surmounted by urns, gryphon and lion. Centre bay surmounted by pierced parapet and date, with pyramidal finials. Tall end and roof stacks with cornices. INTERIOR: not inspected. Forms a group with Nos 83, 85 and 87 Holly Walk (Upper) (qqv).

(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 57).

Listing NGR: SP3228466069

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Legacy System number:: 481673
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 57

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.