NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, WARWICK STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381550
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, WARWICK STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381550
Date first listed:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, WARWICK STREET

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:: NUMBER 42 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 42, WARWICK 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 31636 66050

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE WARWICK STREET 1208-1/2/396 (South side) No.42 and attached railings

II

House and office, now office. c1840 for Algernon Sydney Field, solicitor, reputedly by William Thomas, with later additions and alterations. Interior decoration includes plaster panels after John Flaxman RA and Bertel Thorvaldsen. Stucco over brick with Welsh slate roof. PLAN: double-depth. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor windows. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and concealed roof. Stucco detailing includes panelled Tuscan pilasters through ground and first floors to ends and between windows surmounted by frieze, architrave and dentil cornice; to second floor are corresponding plain Tuscan pilasters. First floor: central tripartite window has 6/6 between 2/2 sashes in taller plain reveals with Doric pillars to angles, on acanthus corbels and with panelled aprons, frieze; 6/6 sashes to outer bays have plain reveals and similar Doric angle pillars, frieze, aprons. Third floor: central recessed panel between 3/6 sashes in plain reveals. Ground floor: central tripartite window has 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, in plain reveals with Doric pillars to angles and with sill, Greek key frieze and cornice. 3 roll-edged steps to 8-panel door with overlight and with similar Doric pillars to reveals. Basement has plank door and casement window. Frieze, cornice, left end stacks. INTERIOR: openwell staircase to full height has tapered rod with central bobbin balusters and wreathed handrail. First floor hallway has two decorative plaster plaques of Day and Night after Thorvaldsen (originals at Chatsworth); to upper level 'Mercury bearing Pandora to earth' after John Flaxman (original in Flaxman Collection, University of London); frieze to first floor, rear room with figures and cattle, after Parthenon frieze; roundel of Madonna and Child to second floor, front room. Moulded cornices and ceiling roses to several rooms, fireplaces, shutters to some windows. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have decorative finials with urns to stanchions. HISTORICAL NOTE: this remained offices and dwelling-place until 1856 when Field occupied Moyola Lodge, No.16 Avenue Road

(qv), retaining office premises here. (Irwin D: John Flaxman 1755-1826 Sculptor, Illustrator, Designer: London: 1979-: 171).

Listing NGR: SP3163666050

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Legacy System number:: 481912
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Irwin, D, John Flaxman, 1755-1826: Sculptor, Illustrator, Designer, (1979), 171

Legal

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