Description

SP 3164 NE,
1208-1/17/80

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA,
CHARLOTTE STREET (North side),
Nos. 15 and 17 and attached railings to No.17

(Formerly Listed as: CHARLOTTE STREET (North side) Nos.11-17 (Odd))

25/03/70

GV

II

Pair of houses, now flats and attached railings to right.
1818-1827 with later additions and alterations.
Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco to front facade;
concealed roof, cast-iron railings and balconies.
EXTERIOR: Three storeys to left (No.15) and four to right with
basements, five first-floor windows, (2:3), 2-lower-storey, one
first-floor window entrance bay to left. Horizontal
rustication to ground floor. Recessed central panel from
ground to second floor. First floor: two 8-pane French windows
with margin-lights and divided overlights; three tall 1/1
sashes with horns; to left a 3/6 sash with horns and sill.
Second floor: 6/6 sashes, three to right with blind boxes, sills.
Frieze, modillion cornice.
Ground floor: entrance to left, elliptically-arched opening to
recessed 3-panel door, the lower panel roll-moulded, with
overlight. Entrance to right, three roll-edged steps to similar
door with overlight with glazing bars, panelled reveals in
elliptically-arched surround.
Windows: two 6/6 sashes and three 2/2 sashes. All windows in
plain reveals. Blocked openings to basement. Raised gable ends
with copings. Right end stack. First floor, to left a
continuous balcony with Carron Company
double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade, to right are
individual balconies with scrolling motif on ornate brackets.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to right to sides of steps and
across front have bars with fleur-de-lys finials and newel
posts with urn finials, gate to basement has bars and two levels
of rails.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Charlotte Street was laid out by 1818 and
built along by 1834.
Nos 7-19 (odd) Charlotte Street (qqv) constitute an
architectural group.

(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 26; DoE List of
Buildings of Special Architectural/Historic Interest: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3197564819

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661333

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Recommended Books

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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)