ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS

ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS, PARADE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381439
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:: ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS
Statutory Address:: ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS, PARADE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381439
Date first listed:: 01-Mar-1949
List Entry Name:: ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS, PARADE

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

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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:: ROYAL PUMP ROOM AND BATHS, PARADE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31863 65517

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE 1208-1/7/291 (South West side) 01/03/49 Royal Pump Room and Baths

GV II

Spa pump room and swimming baths. 1813-1814 with later additions and alterations including ladies' pool of c1870; 1885; 1889; 1910; those of 1926-7 probably include side pavilions; those of c1948 include remodelling of windows, and 1956. By CS Smith of Warwick, a pupil of Sir Jeffry Wyatville and financed by a syndicate; of this only the colonnade remains, with additions of 1870 by J Cundall of Leamington. 1885 rebuildings including pump room, and 1899 baths extension by W de Normanville, the Borough Engineer. Sandstone ashlar with red sandstone columns and dark grey brick plinth, slate and glass roofs. STYLE: late Classical, with Turkish-style interior. EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 9 first-floor windows, the outer bays project slightly to full height, between single-tall-storey, 3-window pavilions, and with ranges to rear. Pump room to main range at front with baths to rear. Ground floor has Doric colonnade: Dodecastyle centre between distyle with antae ranges with full entablature with triglyphs; balustraded parapet has panels and vase-shaped balusters. Portico has patterned tile floor. Plinth. Entrances: to outer bays are double 4-fielded-panel doors; to centre, a shallow recess with double part-glazed doors with overlight. Otherwise four 1/1 sashes with plain reveals. Cornice. First floor: outer bays have broad pilasters with horizontal rustication to angles. Otherwise, 8/8 sashes with tooled surrounds. Continuous frieze, cornice, blocking course. Side ranges (alike): Doric pilasters between bays and to angles. Three 8/12 sashes with fanlights with radial glazing (that to left centre with stained glass) with pilastered surrounds and tooled round-arches with central keystones; tooled and chamfered sills, aprons. Balustrade of panels and vase balusters continues to returns. Hipped roofs. Pilasters and fenestration continue for 6-window bays to left return. Further range to rear projects to left with Tuscan pilasters clasping angles and elliptically-arched entrance to left with board door.

To right return a similar 4-bay arcade, but first two bays are blind, then two 2/2 sashes with horns. Further range has three 2/2 sashes and three 1/1 sashes with tooled sills and plain reveals. Above these are two round-arched openings, that to left with 12-pane, round-arched windows, otherwise blind. Modillion cornice and continuous balustrade. INTERIOR: late Neo-Classical style pump room runs the front of the building and is two storeys in height. Decoration in 7 bays, balconies, 3 ceiling roses. Turkish-style rooms to rear include octagonal, domed room with Islamic arches, dome with stained glass and 2 rose windows. Ladies' pool has red and yellow decorative brickwork, elliptically-arched arcades; modillion cornices, open trussed iron roof. (Leamington Spa Courier: 3 February 1989; Storrie J: William de Normanville: Engineer, Architect and Inventor: Royal Leamington Spa: 19-21, 22-33; Victoria County History: Warwickshire: 155; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 336).

Listing NGR: SP3186365517

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Legacy System number:: 481801
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
The Victoria History of the County of Warwick155
Pevsner, N, Wedgwood, A, The Buildings of England: Warwickshire, (1966), 336
Storrie, J, William Louis de Normanville Engineer Architect and Inventor19-33
'Leamington Spa Courier' in 3 February, (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.