Refuge House
REFUGE HOUSE, 150, PARADE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381434
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Refuge House
- Statutory Address:
- REFUGE HOUSE, 150, PARADE
Have you got a photo to share?
Join the Missing Pieces Project. We want you to share your photos and memories.
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2005-04-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/14242/22
- Rights:
- © Mr Alistair F Nisbet. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381434
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Refuge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- REFUGE HOUSE, 150, PARADE
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:
- REFUGE HOUSE, 150, PARADE
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 31786 65709
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE PARADE
1208-1/7/285 (West side)
19/11/53 No.150
Refuge House
GV II
House, now bank and offices. c1835 with later additions and
alterations including early-C20 ground floor, and late-C20
banking hall and extension to rear. Pinkish-brown brick with
painted stucco front facade and ashlar ground floor, Welsh
slate roof and cast-iron balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Tuscan pilasters
through first and second floors to ends and between windows.
First floor: tall 6/6 sashes in tooled surrounds with frieze
and cornice. Second floor has 3/6 sashes in plain reveals and
with moulded sills. Frieze, dentil cornice.
Ground floor projects. Roll-moulded plinth. Arcade of 5 Ionic
columns on plinths. Entrance to 4th arcade, 6-panel
double-doors with fanlight with decorative glazing, with
hollow-moulded round arch. Plate-glass windows with divided
overlights. All openings have horizontal rustication to
surrounds and central stepped keystones. Modillion cornice.
Segmental pediment over 4th. arcade with foliate decoration
with beehive, inscribed 'NOTHING WITHOUT LABOUR' and
surmounted by balcony. End stack.
INTERIOR: shutters; 6-panel doors; moulded cornices;
narrow-openwell staircase from first to second floor has stick
balusters. Service staircase has turned balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so-named in 1860, Originally
called Lillington Lane, it was renamed Union Row c1809. The
lower section was laid out c1810-1814 and extended towards
Dormer Place c1835. Built as houses, hotels and
lodging-houses, by 1850 many had become shops.
Ground floor forms a continuous architectural unit with No.148
(qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 33, 36-37; Manning JC (Facsimile by
Warwickshire County Council 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past
.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 138).
Listing NGR: SP3178665709
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481796
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Manning, J C, Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895), 138
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 33 36-37
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 17-Jun-2026 at 09:54:58.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.