Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE HIGH STREET
1208-1/8/172 (South side)
25/03/70 No.10
(Formerly Listed as:
HIGH STREET
No.10
Crown Hotel)

II

Vicarage, opened as an hotel 1814, with later additions and
alterations, now flats. Reddish-brown brick with painted
stucco facades and cast-iron balconies and tympana.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor window range to left with 3
taller storeys, 6 first-floor windows to right. Left-hand
range has central projection. Right-hand range projects.
Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground
floor surmounted to first floor at ends of left range by
pilasters with incised decoration, and Tuscan pilasters to
projection.
First floor, left range: sill band, remains of casement
windows in plain reveals and with tooled architraves, that to
centre has cornice on consoles; right range: some openings
have 4-pane French windows with tympana with Grecian
enrichment in plain, round-arched reveals and tooled
architraves.
Ground floor: left range, entrance below second window within
porch of two Tuscan pillars, between canted bays with tooled
surrounds to window openings, frieze and dentil cornice, hood
continues across door; right range has 3 tall openings and
wide bay window.
Second floor: left range has 3 square openings with remains of
2/2 sashes in plain reveals and tooled architraves; frieze and
cornice to left range continues as second-floor sill band to
right range: openings have remains of 1/1 sashes with
margin-lights in plain reveals and tooled architraves; frieze,
cornice, blocking course throughout. Tall ridge stack with
cornice. To right range are three individual balconies with
double-heart-and-anthemion motif, then a continuous balcony
with scroll motif.
Rear rebuilt and extended late C20.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the former High Road from Warwick to London,
High Street was first known as Warwick Row and laid out in
1813.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):

Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3197265194

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661427

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