NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS OLD BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 85, REGENT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381419
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS OLD BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 85, REGENT STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381419
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS OLD BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 85, REGENT STREET
Statutory Address 2:: OLD BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 73, PARADE

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBER 85 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 85, REGENT STREET
Statutory Address:: OLD BANK AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 73, PARADE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31789 65923

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE 1208-1/7/272 (East side) 19/11/53 No.73 Old Bank and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.85 and attached railings REGENT STREET. House, now bank. c1818 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades, Welsh slate roof with ridge stacks and cast-iron railings and balconies. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 5 first-floor windows arranged 2:1:2 of which the outer bays project. Plinth and horizontal rustication to ground floor. First floor: outer bays have tall 6/9 sashes with tooled surrounds and cornices on consoles. To centre a 10-pane French window with divided overlight, within tooled surround with pediment on consoles; a short balustrade of bobbin balusters projects over porch. Second floor: continuous sill band. 6/6 sashes with tooled surrounds, that to centre with ears. Third floor: 3/3 sashes, sills. All windows in plain reveals. Ground floor: central entrance within distyle Corinthian porch with engaged pilasters, frieze, cornice. Double multi-panel doors within doorcase of fluted pilasters, fanlight with decorative glazing bars and rusticated surround. 6-pane sashes with fanlights with radial glazing and rusticated surrounds, sills, plain reveals. First floor, outer bays each have continuous balconies with ornate, scrolling balustrades and with ornate balcony divider to left. Right return: 4 storeys, 5 first-floor windows with basement to left. Almost identical facade. Ground floor, entrance to right: 5 steps to 6-panel door with blind overlight, between pilasters with horizontal rustication and within porch with similar pillars and cambered arch with central keystone, cornice. Otherwise ground-floor fenestration similar to main facade, but with 1 wider 1/1 fixed light window with margin-lights and radial glazing to head. Windows to upper floors as front facade. No openings to basement. First floor has similar but continuous balustrade. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings and 2 gates across front of this return abut main facade and have 2 levels of rails and bars with spear-and-tassel finials. Steps to basement have stick balusters.

HISTORICAL NOTE: known for a time as Gloucester House, the dwelling was occupied by the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester during a visit to the Spa in 1822. It was altered to a bank in 1822. Originally Lillington Lane, the Parade was renamed Union Row c1809, and by 1860 had become the Parade. The lower section was laid out c1810-14 and built 1814-1818, with the upper section, east side built c1824-1840. Occupies an important corner site. Nos 71 & 73 Parade with Nos 87-93 (odd) Regent Street (qqv) form an architectural group. No.73 Old Bank listed 19/11/53. No.85 Regent Street listed 25/03/70. These two addresses are for the same building. (Roth D: A Pocket Guide to Royal Leamington Spa: Warwick: 1978-: 19; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 34).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE REGENT STREET 1208-1/7/272 (North side) 19/11/53 No.85 and attached railings

GV II

See under: No.73 Old Bank and attached railings PARADE.

Listing NGR: SP3178965923

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Legacy System number:: 481780
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 34
Roth, D, A Pocket Guide to Royal Leamington Spa, (1978), 19

Legal

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