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ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/9/237 (South side)
25/03/70 No.66
(Formerly Listed as:
LEAM TERRACE
(South side)
Nos.56-66) GV II Villa. c1834-1838, with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and Welsh
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with recessed
2-lower-storey, 1 first-floor-window bay to right.
First floor: band surmounted by 4 Tuscan pilasters, to ends
and between windows; 6/6 sashes, plain reveals, moulded
surrounds. Double frieze, cornice, blocking course.
Ground floor: plinth, horizontal rustication.
Main range, central entrance: 3 roll-edged steps to
part-glazed, 4-panel door between pilaster strips and
margin-lights with glazing-bars, fanlight with glazing-bars,
in plain reveals and round-arched surround. Within distyle
Tuscan porch with engaged pilasters and entablature with
blocking course.
To left a tripartite window of 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, in
plain reveals and with sill. To right a canted bay with three
1/1 sashes, frieze, cornice, blocking course.
To right recess, first floor: tall, narrow 2/2 sash, the upper
light pointed, with margin-lights, cambered arch of rubbed
brick; ground floor has a pointed-arched, long-panel door with
plain spandrels. Tall end stacks to main range have cornices.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836, both
sides as far as Willes Road were almost completely built by
1841.
Nos 54-66 (even) Leam Terrace (qv) with No.2 Farley Street
(qv) form an architectural group of villas.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 30; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; The Buildings of
England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire:
Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 338).
Listing NGR: SP3247965521
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
Legacy System number:
481739
Legacy System:
LBS
Sources
Books and journals Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 30 Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 338 '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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