Gordon House and Gordon Passage
GORDON HOUSE AND GORDON PASSAGE, 3A, RUSSELL TERRACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381525
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gordon House and Gordon Passage
- Statutory Address:
- GORDON HOUSE AND GORDON PASSAGE, 3A, RUSSELL TERRACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381525
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Gordon House and Gordon Passage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GORDON HOUSE AND GORDON PASSAGE, 3A, RUSSELL TERRACE
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:
- GORDON HOUSE AND GORDON PASSAGE, 3A, RUSSELL TERRACE
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 32187 65358
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3265SW RUSSELL TERRACE
1208-1/12/366 (North side)
Gordon House, No.3A Gordon Passage
GV II
House, now 3 flats. 1810 with later additions and alterations
including later C19 ground-floor bay windows and late-C20
extension to left. For the Duchess of Gordon. Reddish-brown
brick in Flemish bond with dressings of red rubbed brick and
plain tile roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows, with attics to
gable. First and second floors: 4/4 sashes, larger to first
floor, all in plain reveals, all with horns, sills and flat
arches of gauged brick. Ground floor: central entrance a
part-glazed, panelled door in plain reveals and with flat arch
of gauged brick, in distyle Doric porch with engaged
half-columns, frieze and cornice. Canted bays each have three
4/4 sashes with horns, friezes and cornices. Modillion eaves
cornice, end stacks with cornices. Small casement windows to
gables.
INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with stick balusters and turned
newel post.
HISTORICAL NOTE: The Gordon family were among the first of the
nobility to patronise the Spa. Russell Terrace was laid out
c1828-36.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 29).
Listing NGR: SP3218765358
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481887
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 29
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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