Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Walls
NUMBERS 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 16 AND 17, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381352
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 16 AND 17, LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1381352
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 16 and 17 and Attached Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 16 AND 17, 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 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED WALLS, 16 AND 17, 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 32338 66132
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3266SW LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
1208-1/4/209 (East side)
19/11/53 Nos.16 AND 17
and attached walls
GV II*
Pair of semi-detached villas. c1834-1838 with later
alterations. Architect, William Thomas. Pinkish-brown brick
with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron
verandah and porch.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic 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. Entrances: steps to part-glazed, 3-panel
doors. 10-pane French windows with margin-lights. Basement has
multi-pane casement and two 3/3 sashes. Frieze; cornice and
low parapet to left; copings to right. Central ridge and rear
stacks. Porches have delicate scroll motif. Continuous
verandah to centre, ground floor has anthemion and paterae to
uprights and double-rod-and-anthemion motif balustrade.
INTERIOR: No.17: shutters to some windows; Regency fireplaces;
staircase with wreathed handrail and rod-with-central-bobbin
balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen walls to left and right, that to
left abutting No.15 (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: 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
(odd) Lansdowne Crescent (qqv), all by William Thomas.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 57).
Listing NGR: SP3233866132
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481712
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 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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