Numbers 51 and 53 and 55 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 51 AND 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 51, 53 AND 55, LEAM TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381372
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 51 and 53 and 55 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 51 AND 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 51, 53 AND 55, LEAM TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381372
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1983
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 51 and 53 and 55 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 51 AND 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 51, 53 AND 55, 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.
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 51 AND 53 AND 55 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 51, 53 AND 55, 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 32532 65563
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265NE LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/10/230 (North side)
22/12/83 Nos.51, 53 AND 55
and attached railings
GV II
Row of 3 houses and attached railings. c1832-6 with later
additions and alterations. Thomas Williams Oldham of Southam,
builder. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco to front and
left facades, stucco to right facade, Welsh slate roof and
cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 6 first-floor windows arranged 2:2:2.
First-floor band with pilaster strips to ends of each house, 6
in all. 6/6 sashes throughout, in plain reveals and with
sills. Continuous eaves band, cornice, embattled parapet to
Nos 51 & 53.
Ground floor, entrances arranged to right of Nos 51 & 55 and
to left of No.53: 2 roll-edged steps to part-glazed doors with
overlights. Joint tristyle Tuscan porch to Nos 51 and 53, and
distyle Tuscan porch to No.55 all with engaged pilasters,
frieze, cornice, embattled to No.55 otherwise with low
parapet. Canted bay windows, that to right has centre a 6/6
sash between 2/2 sashes, otherwise 1/1 sashes.
To rear of No.55 are six 6/6 sashes.
INTERIOR to No.55: staircase has stick balusters and wreathed
handrail. Shutters to some windows. Some marble and cast-iron
chimneypieces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: boundary railings between Nos 51 and 53
have pairs of bars with paterae between.
HISTORICAL NOTE: deeds dated 30 and 31 December 1833 to No.55
indicate that the land was sold by Edward Willes of Newbold
Comyn with a covenant permitting only 'Villas or
Dwellinghouses of the value of »600 each with cemented or
stuccoed fronts'. Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836, both
sides as far as Willes Road were almost completely built by
1841.
Forms an architectural group with No.49 (qv).
(Roth D: Early C19 Decorative Ironwork: a study based on
Leamington Spa: 1976-: 74, FIG.101; Dept of the Environment
List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).
Listing NGR: SP3253265563
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481732
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Roth, D, Early 19th Century Decorative Ironwork: A study based on Leamington Spa, (1976), 74
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.
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