NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL

NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, 1, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381343
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, 1, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1381343
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, 1, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS

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:: NUMBER 1 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND WALL, 1, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS

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 32275 66120

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LANSDOWNE CIRCUS 1208-1/4/201 (South West side) 19/11/53 No.1 and attached railings and wall

GV II*

Villa with attached wall and railings. c1834-1838. Architect, William Thomas. Pinkish-brown brick with unpainted stucco, partly painted to ground floor, right side, with Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings, porch, verandah and basement cover. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic, 2 first-floor windows. Plinth. 6 roll-edged steps to central entrance a 3-panel door. Canted bay from basement to ground floor to left with 2/2 sash between 1/1 sashes to ground floor and 1/1 sashes to basement. Otherwise 8/8 sashes throughout with plain reveals and sills. Low parapets, copings. Half-hipped roof. Right return has 2 first-floor windows. Ground floor has tall 8/12 sashes, first floor has 8/8 sashes with plain reveals. Basement has 18-pane fixed lights. Porch has circle-and-scroll motif. Right return has verandah to ground floor with double-rod-with-anthemion-and-paterae motif to balustrade and diamond-circle-and-oval uprights. Basement to right return has scrolled cover. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen wall to right abuts No.2 (qv). To sides of entrance steps are railings with stick railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: a map of Leamington Spa in 1834 shows Lansdowne Circus and Crescent laid out for 'intended buildings'. Lansdowne Circus is an almost complete layout of practically identical villas. Nos 1-17 (consecutive), Lansdowne Circus form an architectural group with Victoria House, and Nos 19-57 (odd), Lansdowne Crescent (qqv), all by Thomas. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39, 57).

Listing NGR: SP3227566120

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Legacy System number:: 481703
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39 57

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