Numbers 21 and 23 With Attached Walls and Railings

NUMBERS 21 AND 23 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 21 AND 23, LEAM TERRACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381365
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Numbers 21 and 23 With Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 21 AND 23 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 21 AND 23, LEAM TERRACE
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381365
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:
30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:
Numbers 21 and 23 With Attached Walls and Railings
Statutory Address 1:
NUMBERS 21 AND 23 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 21 AND 23, LEAM TERRACE

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
NUMBERS 21 AND 23 WITH ATTACHED WALLS AND RAILINGS, 21 AND 23, LEAM TERRACE

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 32260 65532

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/9/222 (North side)
25/03/70 Nos.21 AND 23
with attached walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
LEAM TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.17-23 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now house and rest home and
attached wall and railings. c1834-1838 with later alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate
roof and cast-iron railings. Neo-Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic to gables and basement, 4
first-floor windows, 2 to each house, outer bays project and
are gabled.
First floor: band; outer bays have 2/2 sashes, otherwise 1/1
sashes, all with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds, blind
boxes to left 2 windows. Attics to gable: central window a
6-pane casement with pointed-arched overlight in chamfered,
pointed-arched surround and with hoodmould with male and
female headstops. Further 6-pane casement to each with plain
reveals. To centre of upper storey a blind arcade, above that
a corbel table and above again a blind arcade.
Ground floor: castellated pair of central porches have 5
roll-edged steps to pointed-arched openings with roll-moulded
surrounds. Within are part-glazed doors with Gothic tracery to
heads of upper panels and pointed-arched overlights with
stained glass and Gothic glazing-bars. Outer bays have
unequally-hung, tall 1/1 sash to left and 6/9 sash to right,
both with verandahs with 4-centred-arched balustrade, posts
and cusped frieze.
Basement: alike, concealed entrances below steps, 8/8 sashes.
Gables have finials to centre and sides. End stacks.
Rear: 8/8 sashes.
INTERIOR of No.23: shutters to several rooms. Entrance hall
has cornice with fleurons, sitting room has cornice with
foliage. Dogleg staircase has stick balusters and wreathed
handrail. Mainly 4-panel doors. Coal cellars under driveway.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative lancet railings across front
and to sides of steps. To right a castellated wall with
pointed-arched, chamfered openings. Similar wall and opening
to left, but with battlements partly removed adjoins No.19
(qv).

HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836 and both
sides to Willes Road were almost completely built by 1841.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3226065532

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
481725
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39
List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest in Royal Leamington Spa, (1989)

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Numbers 21 and 23 With Attached Walls and Railings

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