25, DORMER PLACE, 168 AND 170, PARADE

168 AND 170, PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381437
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: 25, DORMER PLACE, 168 AND 170, PARADE
Statutory Address:: 168 AND 170, PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381437
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: 25, DORMER PLACE, 168 AND 170, PARADE
Statutory Address 1:: 168 AND 170, PARADE
Statutory Address 2:: 25, DORMER PLACE

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:: 168 AND 170, PARADE
Statutory Address:: 25, DORMER PLACE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31808 65641

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE DORMER PLACE 1208-1/7/288 (North side) 19/11/53 No.25

GV II

See under: Nos.168 AND 170 PARADE.

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE 1208-1/7/288 (West side) 19/11/53 Nos.168 AND 170 (Formerly Listed as: PARADE (West side) No.168) (Formerly Listed as: PARADE (West side) No.170)

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Formerly known as: Nos.168 AND 170 National Westminster Bank PARADE. Includes: No.25 DORMER PLACE. Houses, now restaurant with offices. c1835 with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and concealed roof, with cast-iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 4 first-floor windows, angle to left has 1 first-floor window and is curved on plan. First floor through second floor: to left a pair of fluted Ionic pilasters, similar single pilaster to right, to centre a pair of Tuscan fluted pilasters. Frieze, cornice. Above these to third floor are pilaster strips, those to ends have incised decoration, plain to centre. First floor: 10-pane French windows with overlights each in moulded surround with frieze and cornice. Second and third floors: 8/8 sashes with moulded surrounds, sills to second floor. Similar fenestration to angle, windows curved on plan and with blind box to first floor. Ground floor: horizontal rustication. 2 rectangular bays each with 4 Ionic columns and three 8/8 sashes between 2/2 sashes, moulded sills, frieze and cornice. Entrance: double doors to angle in rusticated arch with keystone, 2-columnar porch with frieze and cornice. Balconies above porch and to each bay have stick and circle balustrades. Left return: 4 storeys, 4 first-floor windows. First floor through second floor: pairs of tall fluted Ionic pilasters to ends. Frieze and cornice. Third floor: pilasters with incised decoration above pilasters. Cornice, blocking course with plain pilasters to ends, coping. First floor: tall 12/12 sashes in tooled surrounds with frieze and cornice. Second floor: 8/8 sashes in tooled surrounds and with sills. Third floor: smaller 8/8 sashes in tooled surrounds. Ground floor

has horizontal rustication. Entrance to left a board door. Four 12/12 sashes with sills. All windows in plain reveals. INTERIOR: rear openwell staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. 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 c1808-1814 and extended towards Dormer Place c1835. Built as houses, hotels and lodging-houses, by 1850 many had become shops. Occupies an important corner site. (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: Leamington Spa: 1895-: 138).

Listing NGR: SP3180865641

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Legacy System number:: 481799
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
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

Legal

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