Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NW GROVE STREET
1208-1/6/163 (West side)
25/03/70 No.48
Wentworth House and attached
railings

GV II

Includes: No.6 REGENT STREET.
Two houses and attached railings. c1828, with later
alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades
and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron railings and balconies.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and basements, 4 first-floor
windows. First floor: tall 6/9 sashes. Second floor: 3/6
sashes with sills. Attics: roof dormer to left has casement
window. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Ground floor: 6/6 sashes with
sills. All windows in plain reveals.
Entrances to left and right returns.
To left, (No.48 Grove Street): 5 steps to central entrance a
6-fielded-panel door with overlight within fielded-pilastered
surround with hood on corbels. Left return has outer blind
openings in plain reveals and with sills, 2 per floor.
Right return (No.6 Regent Street): 3 storeys, 2 first-floor
openings. First floor: tall 6/9 sash and blind opening. Second
floor: blind openings. Ground floor: to left a 6/6 sash. All
windows in plain reveals and with sills.
Entrance: steps to panelled door within projecting porch with
Tuscan pilasters, frieze and copings, round-arched
single-lights to sides of porch. Hipped roof. Central stack
with cornice.
Main facade, first floor, each house has continuous balcony
with double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade, also to
first floor, left window of right return.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings to front and returns with
gate to basement have alternate anthemion and sword-hilt
finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Grove Street was laid out in 1828, the west
side and lower part of the east side were built by 1834.
Forms an architectural group with No.50, Grove Street (qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NW REGENT STREET
1208-1/6/163 (South side)
25/03/70 No.6

GV II

See under: No.48 Wentworth House and attached railings GROVE
STREET.

Listing NGR: SP3138465872

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661418

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Recommended Books

• 
  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)