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REFUGE HOUSE

REFUGE HOUSE, 150, PARADE

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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

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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

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: 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

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

Legacy System number:: 481796
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 33 36-37
Manning, J C , Glimpses of our Local Past... Royal Leamington Spa, (1895), 138

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