Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE HAMILTON TERRACE
1208-1/7/168 (South East side)
25/03/70 Nos.10-32 (Even)
and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 12 houses, now offices and attached railings.
Numbered right to left, described left to right. Laid out and
built 1833-1834. Mr Swain built some portion of it.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and mainly
Welsh slate roofs, that to left has cement-tiles, with
cast-iron railings and balconies.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 24 first-floor windows, of which bays
3-6, 11-14, and 19-22 project. Complete terrace with
symmetrical, Neo-classical design. Ground floor has horizontal
rustication. First floor: tall unequally-hung 1/1 sashes
except to No.28 are 6/4 sashes, all within tooled architraves
with frieze and cornice, except centre four windows with
pediments. Second floor: 1/1 sashes except to No.28 are 6/6
sashes, all with tooled architraves and sills. Stepped
cornice, low parapet with balusters to centre surmounted by 4
anthemions and pedimented to centre two bays. Ground floor:
end entrances, otherwise in pairs all within porches (partly
missing to No.32), the outer and central two bays with Tuscan
pilasters, otherwise with round-arched openings; part-glazed
doors, those in Tuscan porches with overlights with glazing
bars, otherwise with fanlights mainly with decorative glazing.
Tripartite 1/1 sashes except to No.28 a 6/6 between 4/4 sash
and to No.10 a single 1/1 sash.
Basements: plank doors and mainly 6/6 sashes, some 2/2 and 1/1
sashes and multi-pane casements. Ridge stacks.
First floor has continuous balcony with double-rod motif on
ornamental brackets, except to left dwelling are similar
balconettes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet area railings throughout.
Nos 10-38 (even) form a group with No.2 (Grove House) Newbold
Street and No.40 Holly Walk (qqv).
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-: 141; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Cave LF: Royal
Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-:
39).

Listing NGR: SP3195665770

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661423

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas