Numbers 10 and 11 and Attached Walls
NUMBERS 10 AND 11 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 10 AND 11, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381349
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 10 and 11 and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 10 AND 11 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 10 AND 11, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381349
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 10 and 11 and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 10 AND 11 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 10 AND 11, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
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:
- NUMBERS 10 AND 11 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 10 AND 11, 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 32317 66180
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
1208-1/4/206 (North side)
19/11/53 Nos.10 AND 11
and attached walls
GV II*
Pair of semi-detached villas and attached walls. c1834-1838
with later alterations. Architect, William Thomas.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate
roof with cast-iron porches and verandahs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attics to gable, 6
first-floor windows, of which the entrance bays to left and
right are set back. First floor: to left and right a narrow,
round-arched 2/2 sash, otherwise 6/6 sashes in plain reveals
and with sills, windows to right have blind boxes. Entrances:
5 steps to 3-panel doors, that to left part-glazed. 10-pane
French windows with margin-lights. Casement window to
basement. Frieze, cornice, low parapet. Central ridge and rear
stacks. Porches have delicate scroll motifs. Continuous
verandah to centre of ground floor has heart-and-anthemion
balustrade and uprights with anthemion-and-paterae motifs.
INTERIOR to No.11 has staircase with wreathed handrail and
rod-with-central-bobbin balusters; shutters to some windows;
fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen walls to left and right abut Nos 9
and 12.
HISTORICAL NOTE: No.10 was the home of American author,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, c1853-1859. A map of 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, Lansdowne Crescent (qqv), all by William Thomas.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 3, 39, 57; Manning JC (Facsimile by
Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past
.. Royal Leamington Spa: Leamington Spa: 1895-).
Listing NGR: SP3231766180
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481709
- 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), 3 39 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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