Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE
1208-1/3/58 (North side)
25/03/70 No.45
Stanley House

GV II

Includes: No.13 KENILWORTH ROAD.
2 houses, now house and offices. c1836 with later additions
and alterations. Probably built by Samuel Bird. Brick with
painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron
verandahs.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 6 first-floor windows, 3 to
each house.
First floor: continuous band, 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with
sills and tooled architraves, those 3 to left have frieze and
cornice.
To right dwelling: frieze and cornice.
Second floor: 3/6 sashes in plain reveals with tooled
architraves and sills, those 3 to right have blind boxes.
Cornice to left, copings throughout.
Ground floor: 5 tall 6/9 sashes in plain reveals, those 2 to
left have tooled architraves, those 3 to right have blind
boxes.
Entrances: (No.45 Binswood Avenue) to left, steps to 3-panel
door with side-lights with cambered overlight with
glazing-bars; (No.13 Kenilworth Road) to right gable end,
steps to central entrance a 3-panel door with side-lights and
continuous overlight in plain reveals with tooled architrave.
Concealed basements. Tall end and centre stacks with cornices.
Ground floor has 2 continuous verandahs, one to each house,
with decorative balusters and barleytwist uprights and frieze.
Gable end to right has continuous first-floor band, frieze and
cornice, with 3/6 sash in plain reveals to gable.
To rear: 6/6, 3/6, 2/2 sashes, with 6/6 staircase sash with
margin-lights to No.45 and long 4/4 staircase sash to No.13,
all in plain reveals and with sills.
INTERIOR: No.45 retains original plasterwork including
cornices to some rooms, that to front ground floor has frieze,
cornice and ceiling rose; shutters; barrel vaulted cellars.
Otherwise not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Binswood Avenue was laid out c1828 and most
houses to the west were built by 1834. Nos 31-45 (odd)
Binswood Avenue (qqv) with No.13 Kenilworth Road (qv) form a
group. Occupies an important corner site.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:

Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE KENILWORTH ROAD
1208-1/3/58 (West side)
25/03/70 No.13

GV II

See under: No.45 Stanley House BINSWOOD AVENUE.

Listing NGR: SP3175266581

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661306

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)