Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW CHURCH STREET
1208-1/12/85 (East side)
19/11/53 No.3
Commonwealth Club and attached
railings

GV II

Villa, now offices and attached railings. c1825, with later
alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades
and cement-tile roof with cast-iron railings, gate and
boot-scraper.
PLAN: L-shaped on plan with central entrance to main range.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys on basement, 3 first-floor windows.
Stucco detailing includes pilasters with horizontal
rustication with laurel-wreath frieze to ends to ground floor,
continuous frieze and cornice. To first floor are Corinthian
pilasters, continuous architrave, frieze and cornice. To
second floor are Tuscan pilasters, the capitals form part of
continuous cornice. Blocking course. 2-storey central porch
has similar horizontal rustication to pillars and pilasters
and laurel wreaths to frieze to ground floor, surmounted by
fluted Corinthian columns and plain engaged pilasters,
architrave, frieze and pediment.
Ground floor: 6 steps (mainly roll-edged) to central 3-panel
door in tooled architrave. 6/6 sashes with sills and blind
boxes.
First floor: central 6-pane French windows with divided
overlight, with margin-lights, blind box; two 6/6 sashes with
sills and blind boxes. Recessed panel above each first-floor
window.
Second floor: two 6/6 sashes interrupt frieze and cornice.
Basement has board door to centre and two 6/6 sashes. All
windows in plain reveals.
Tall end, rear and roof stacks with cornices. Half-hipped
roof.
Right return: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor openings. Plinth. To
ground floor, ends and to either side of central bay are
banded pilasters with frieze and cornice. To first floor are
Corinthian pilasters to ends and pairs of pilasters to central
bay, frieze, cornice. To third floor are pilasters, frieze,
cornice. Ground floor: central entrance, 3 steps to 3-panel,
cambered-arched door in wider, cambered-arched recess; two 6/6
sashes in plain reveals and with sills.
To either side of entrance steps are bootscrapers.
INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork including moulded

cornices, interrupted by later partitions. Original curved
staircase with plaster niches.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and to sides of steps have
acanthus finials and anthemion finials to standards, with
similar gate.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Church Street was laid out c1815 and built
upon by c1825.
Forms an architectural group with No.2 Church Terrace and Nos
5-13 (odd) Church Street (qqv).
(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-: 27).

Listing NGR: SP3205865410

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661340

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