Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE BATH STREET
1208-1/8/24 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.50, 52 AND 54
The Parthenon
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH STREET
(West side)
No.50)
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH STREET
(West side)
No.52
The Parthenon)
(Formerly Listed as:
BATH STREET
(West side)
No.54)

GV II

Royal Assembly Rooms and then the Royal Music Hall, known as
The Parthenon, now shops. c1821 by Samuel Beazley, London
theatre architect and dramatist for R Elliston, the manager of
the Drury Lane Theatre. Facades restored and repaired after
1960s fire damage, rebuilt to rear, late C20 ground-floor shop
fronts. Brick with painted stucco front facades, unpainted to
left (No.50) and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron balcony to
centre range.
EXTERIOR: central range of 4 storeys, 5 first-floor windows,
between symmetrical ranges of 3 storeys, 1 first-floor window.
Central range projects and has quoins to angles; first floor
has 6-pane French windows with divided overlights in taller,
tooled, round-arched architraves. Second floor: 6/6 sashes
with sills. Third floor: 3/6 radial-headed sashes with sills.
Between second and third floors an inscription panel with
'PARTHENON' in raised letters. Dentil frieze, cornice. Side
ranges: first floor has tall tripartite window, 6/6 between
2/2 sashes in taller, cambered arched reveals. Second floor:
tripartite window, 6-pane centre with 2-pane side-lights. All
windows in plain reveals. Frieze, cornice, low parapet. Glazed
entrances in plate-glass shop-fronts to ground floor.
Continuous balcony to first floor, central range has
round-arched arcade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington
Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3197065283

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661267

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