Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LANSDOWNE CIRCUS
1208-1/4/204 (North West side)
19/11/53 Nos.6 AND 7
and attached walls

GV II*

Pair of semi-detached villas and attached walls. c1834-1838
with later alterations. Architect, William Thomas.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate
roof with cast-iron porches and verandahs.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attics to gable, 6
first-floor windows, of which the entrance bays to left and
right are set back. First floor: 1st and 6th windows are
narrow, round-arched 2/2 sashes, otherwise 6/6 sashes, in
plain reveals and with sills. Entrances: 7 roll-edged steps to
3-panel doors. 10-pane French windows with margin-lights in
plain reveals. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Frieze, cornice, low
parapet; central ridge and rear stacks. Porches have delicate
scroll motif. Continuous verandah to centre, ground floor has
heart-and-anthemion motif with scrolls to uprights.
INTERIOR: No.6 has staircase with wreathed handrail and
rod-with-central-bobbin balusters. No.7 has 4-panel doors;
shutters to some windows; similar staircase.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen walls to either side abut Nos 5
and 8 (qqv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: a map of 1834 shows Lansdowne Circus and
Crescent laid out for 'intended building'.
Lansdowne Circus is an almost complete layout of practically
identical villas. Nos 1-17 (consecutive) Lansdowne Circus form
an architectural group with Victoria House, and Nos 19-57
(odd) Lansdowne Crescent (qqv), all by William Thomas.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 57).

Listing NGR: SP3228066173

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17552619

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