1 AND 3, SPENCER STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381535
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 3, SPENCER STREET
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 3, SPENCER STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381535
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: 1 AND 3, SPENCER STREET
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 3, SPENCER STREET

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:: 1 AND 3, SPENCER STREET

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 31838 65385

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE SPENCER STREET 1208-1/8/375 (North side) 25/03/70 Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now house, restaurant and nursery. Dated 1842 on rainwater head, with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick, whitewashed to front and side facades, with Welsh slate, fish-scale roof. Neo-Tudor style. PLAN: central hallway. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 5 first-floor windows of which the 2nd and 4th are in projecting, gabled bays, with further range to rear left of 2 storeys, 1 first-floor window. Main range has double-chamfered plinth. First floor: moulded band to centre, above which first floor projects slightly. 3 small canted oriel windows, that to centre with traceried lights, with 2-light 'mullion and transom' casements between with chamfered surrounds and sills and beneath hollow-moulded hoods. Ground floor: left and central entrances, steps to part-glazed doors, the upper panels arched, in 4-centre-arched surround with hoodmould. 2 canted bay windows with 'mullion and transom' casement windows, to right a 3-light 'mullion and transom' casement with chamfered surround and sill, hoodmould and blind box. Basement has casement windows. Quatrefoil decoration to gable, that to left with hoodmould. Decorative bargeboards. Range to left, first floor has casement window with cambered arch and chamfered surround and sill. Ground floor: board door with unglazed fanlight with ornate ironwork, beneath cogged arch in chamfered surround. Also inscribed to rainwater head: 'JG'. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: c1872, No.3 was the home of Dr Frederick F Haynes, one of the first players of lawn tennis, a game developed in Royal Leamington Spa. Spencer Street was laid out 1832-1850. (Gibbons WG: Royal Leamington Spa, The Seeds of Lawn Tennis: Coventry: 1986-: 33-35; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 32).

Listing NGR: SP3183865385

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Legacy System number:: 481897
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 32
Gibbons, W G , Royal Leamington Spa: The Seeds of Lawn Tennis, (1986), 33-35

Legal

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