Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE AVENUE ROAD
1208-1/8/12 (North side)
25/03/70 No.22
Adams House
(Formerly Listed as:
AVENUE ROAD
(North side)
Nos.14-26 (Even))

GV II

Villa, now hotel. c1848-1856 with later additions and
alterations. Pinkish-yellow brick with scored and painted
stucco to front facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron
verandah. Central hallway plan.
2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Plinth, alternately
vermiculated quoins. 2 roll-edged steps to central entrance a
part-glazed, part-panelled door with cambered overlight in
plain reveals and with alternately vermiculated Gibbs
surround. Canted bays to ground floor have 1/1 sashes with
margin-lights. First-floor moulded sill band projects below
casement windows with tooled surrounds. Modillion cornice,
wide eaves, end and rear stacks. Continuous verandah to ground
floor has double-scroll motif to uprights.
INTERIOR: hall has modillions and paterae to cornice.
Forms an architectural group with Nos 12-20 (even), 24 and 26
Avenue Road (qqv).

Listing NGR: SP3155165466

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661252

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Recommended Books

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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)