Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW HIGH STREET
1208-1/12/174 (North side)
12/04/95 No.45
The Guards Inn

II

Public house, probably former shop and house. Early-mid C19
with later additions and alterations. Reddish-brown brick in
Flemish bond, with painted stucco to ground floor, front
facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor:
central part-glazed door, otherwise 6/6 sashes. Second floor:
2/2 sashes. All windows in plain reveals and with sills.
Ground floor: pair of off-centre entrances, part-glazed doors
with overlights with margin-lights in fielded-panel reveals
and within common doorcase with fluted architrave. To left a
casement window in plain reveals and with sills. To right a
shop front with central blocked part-glazed entrance between 2
casements, all with fielded panels beneath and with pilaster
strips between, frieze and cornice. Modillion eaves cornice,
right end stack with cornice. Gothick balcony to first-floor
central opening.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: High Street was laid out c1810-1813 and first
known as Warwick Row, it formed part of the High Road from
Warwick to London.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 28; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Manning JC (Facsimile
by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local
Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-).

Listing NGR: SP3211465220

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661429

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