Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/9/237 (South side)
25/03/70 No.66
(Formerly Listed as:
LEAM TERRACE
(South side)
Nos.56-66)

GV II

Villa. c1834-1838, with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and Welsh
slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with recessed
2-lower-storey, 1 first-floor-window bay to right.
First floor: band surmounted by 4 Tuscan pilasters, to ends
and between windows; 6/6 sashes, plain reveals, moulded
surrounds. Double frieze, cornice, blocking course.
Ground floor: plinth, horizontal rustication.
Main range, central entrance: 3 roll-edged steps to
part-glazed, 4-panel door between pilaster strips and
margin-lights with glazing-bars, fanlight with glazing-bars,
in plain reveals and round-arched surround. Within distyle
Tuscan porch with engaged pilasters and entablature with
blocking course.
To left a tripartite window of 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, in
plain reveals and with sill. To right a canted bay with three
1/1 sashes, frieze, cornice, blocking course.
To right recess, first floor: tall, narrow 2/2 sash, the upper
light pointed, with margin-lights, cambered arch of rubbed
brick; ground floor has a pointed-arched, long-panel door with
plain spandrels. Tall end stacks to main range have cornices.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836, both
sides as far as Willes Road were almost completely built by
1841.
Nos 54-66 (even) Leam Terrace (qv) with No.2 Farley Street
(qv) form an architectural group of villas.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 30; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; The Buildings of
England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire:
Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 338).

Listing NGR: SP3247965521

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661489

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