Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW BRANDON PARADE
1208-1/9/69 (South side)
25/03/70 Nos.56 AND 58

GV II

Pair of houses, now offices. Numbered right to left. c1843,
with later additions and alterations. Reddish-brown brick in
Flemish bond with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof.
Neo-Tudor style. H-shaped on plan. Recessed centre with
projecting, gabled wings and further recessed ranges to ends.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to gable and to rear, 6
first-floor windows arranged 1:1:2:1:1. Chamfered plinth.
Entrances to side ranges in projecting embattled porches: 2
steps to long-panelled, 4-centred doors in moulded surrounds
with hoodmould; stepped octagonal embattled column and
half-column to sides with moulded surround with hoodmould.
Projecting wings have canted bays to two storeys; to centre,
single-storey, rectangular bays, all with cavetto-moulded
wooden mullion and transom windows with casements in chamfered
surrounds, otherwise similar 3-light mullion and transom
window and lancet windows with chamfered surrounds, hoodmould
and floral stops. Centre bays have moulded, chamfered angles.
Cavetto-moulded cornice. To each bay a decorative frieze and
further cavetto-moulded cornice. To end ranges and centre a
decorative blocking course and plain blocking course to
centre. Attics to gable. Fish-scale tiles to left. 4 tall
octagonal stacks and 2 tall roof stacks with chamfered angles,
6 similar stacks to rear.
Rear has 2- and 3-light mullion and transom windows, mainly
with cambered arches.
INTERIOR: some moulded ceilings. Two open-newel staircases
with rod-on-bobbin balusters and barleytwist newel posts.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Brandon Parade was laid out c1833, but is not
shown as built until after 1843.
(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington
Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3220065964

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661316

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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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