Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE
1208-1/3/57 (North side)
25/03/70 Nos.39, 41 AND 43
(Formerly Listed as:
BINSWOOD AVENUE
(North side)
Nos.35-43 (Odd))

GV II

Row of three houses, now houses and flats. c1834, with later
additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted
stucco facade and Welsh slate roof.
STYLE: Neo-Tudor.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics, basement to right and 9
first-floor windows, the left bay of each house projects and
is gabled. There is a canted bay to the ground floor, right
side of each house, continuing to basement to right and with
added first-floor bay. Quoins, alternately rusticated to sides
of gabled bays. First floor, moulded band, outer bays of each
house have 2/2 sashes, multi-pane casement to right, with
cavetto-moulded hoods with stops. Blind boxes to Nos 39 & 43.
Central bays have pointed-arched 1/1 fixed-light windows in
pointed cavetto-moulded hoods. Attics to gables have to left a
similar pointed window and to right a casement with pointed,
cavetto-moulded hoods; otherwise a 2/2 sash in plain reveals,
all with sills. Modillion cornice; decorative bargeboards to
gable. Attic dormers to each house.
Ground floor: central entrances, steps to part-glazed,
panelled doors with overlights and between margin lights
within pointed-arched openings with cavetto-moulded hoods.
Windows, to left of each entrance a 3-light mullion window
with 3-light casements and cavetto-moulded hood with label
stops; blind boxes to Nos 39 & 43. Basement has multi-pane
casements. End and ridge stacks. Tent-roofed, glazed cupola to
right.
INTERIOR: to No.39 the staircase has stick balusters; cornices
to some rooms. Otherwise not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Binswood Avenue was laid out c1828, houses to
the west were built by 1834.
Nos 31-45 (odd) Binswood Avenue (qqv) form an architectural
group with No.13 Kenilworth Road (qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3172666581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661305

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Recommended Books

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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)