Liberal Club
LIBERAL CLUB, 87, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381316
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Liberal Club
- Statutory Address:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 87, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381316
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Liberal Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 87, HOLLY WALK (UPPER)
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:
- LIBERAL CLUB, 87, 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 32358 66086
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW HOLLY WALK (UPPER)
1208-1/4/181 (North side)
25/03/70 No.87
Liberal Club
GV II
Villa, now club. c1838 with later additions and alterations.
By William Thomas, of Leamington and Canada. Pinkish-brown
brick with painted stucco front facade and Welsh slate roof.
STYLE: Neo-Tudor.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with single-storey,
single bay to left and 2-storey, single bay to right.
Main range has pilaster buttresses to angles with Gothic
decoration and pyramidal caps.
Central entrance in projecting porch: double part-glazed doors
with 4-centred overlight in hollow-moulded surround with 1
order of columns; hoodmould with face-stops; quatrefoil
decoration to spandrels, segmental pedimented upshot and
octagonal buttresses with onion caps to angles.
Ground floor has outer bays with pointed 'lancet' windows, 3
to centres and 2 to sides, surmounted by Gothic balustrade.
First floor: outer bays have pair of 3-light windows with
Gothic heads and margin-lights, divided overlights with
remains of quatrefoil glazing; hollow-moulded hoodmould. To
centre a 4-pane lancet with margin-lights.
Second floor: similar 4- and 2-pane lancets with
margin-lights, all in chamfered surrounds with sills and
hollow-moulded hoods. Shaped gables with pointed finials,
smaller pointed gable to centre, all with hollow-chamfered
surrounds. Tall end stacks with cornices.
Left range: lancet window in chamfered surround with
hoodmould; battlements.
Right range: 3-light lancet window with hoodmould. To rear:
ground floor Gothic bay window; 6-pane French windows.
INTERIOR: ground floor, right drawing room has upper part of
triple ogee-arched arcade with fleurons and pinnacles with
finials. Windows have moulded architraves. To hall are 2
Gothic pilasters. Ogeed arch with fleurons leads to French
windows. First floor has pair of 6-pane Gothic doors.
Forms an architectural group with Nos 79 and 81, 83, and 85
Holly Walk (Upper) (qqv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 57).
Listing NGR: SP3235866086
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481676
- 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.
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