Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW BRANDON PARADE
1208-1/9/70 (South side)
25/03/70 No.60

GV II

Villa, now offices. c1843, with later additions and
alterations including late-C20 range to rear. Probably by
James Morgan. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade,
Welsh slate roof and cast-iron porch. T-shaped on plan.
EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with
recessed 2-storey, 1 first-floor window entrance range to
right. Main range, horizontal rustication to ground floor.
First-floor band surmounted by pairs of Ionic pilasters to
ends and between windows. First floor: 6/6 sashes with plain
reveals and moulded sills. Ground floor: moulded plinth
interrupted by tall 4/4 sashes with sidelights, roll-edged
sills in stepped reveals. Frieze, moulded cornice, blocking
course. Side range, first floor: small 6/6 sash with radial
glazing to head and tooled surround, sill. Blocking course.
Entrance: 3 roll-edged steps to 4-fielded-panel door with
overlight in tooled surround. Porch has anthemion and paterae
motifs and tent roof.
INTERIOR: 3 marble fireplaces to ground and first floor.
Decorative cornices to some rooms. Shutters to some rooms.
4-panel doors. Dogleg staircase with cast-iron balustrade of
paired sticks with central paterae, wreathed handrail.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Brandon Parade was laid out c1833, but is not
shown as built until after 1843. Formerly part of the grounds
of Newbold Comyn, owned by Revd Edward Willes who commissioned
PF Robinson, John Nash and James Morgan during the 1820s to
produce designs for the development of his estate.
(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington
Spa: 1970-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and
Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39; Warwick County Record
Office: The Rise of Leamington Spa, A Century of Growth
1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3222965973

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661317

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