Description

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ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
LEAM TERRACE (North side)
No.9 Brook House with attached wall and railings

(Formerly listed as No.9 Brock House with attached wall and railings, previously listed as: LEAM TERRACE (North side) Nos.9, 11 AND 13)

25/03/70

GV
II
Villa with attached wall and railings. c1833-6. Possibly by John Mair of London, for Letts. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings.

EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attics to gable, 2 first-floor windows; gable end to street. Neo-Tudor. First-floor band, 8-pane casements with margin-lights and pointed-arched glazing bars to heads with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. Central window to gable a single-pane casement with margin-lights and shaped overlight in pointed-arched, chamfered surround with hoodmould with foliate stops. Ground floor, entrance to right: 2 steps to pointed-arched opening with chamfered surround, hoodmould and face stops.Within a part-glazed, 4-panel door with Gothic tracery to upper panels. Two 8-pane casements with pointed-arched glazing bars to heads and margin-lights.Hoodmould, chamfered surround, sills. Basement has glazed door and multi-pane casement window. Decorative barge-boards to gable ends. End stacks.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to right an embattled wall with 4-centred opening with chamfered surround and plank door, adjoins similar wall to No.11 (qv). Lancet area railings.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Letts bought the land in 1833, John Mair, Architect of London was one of the signatories of the deed. The house is shown on a 'Panoramic View of Leamington from Newbold Terrace' by Anne Gun Cunninghame, lithographed and printed by G Rowe of Cheltenham, c1840. Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836 and both sides to Willes Road were almost completely built by 1841.

Forms an architectural group with Nos 11 & 13 (qv).

(Title deeds to No.11 Leam Terrace; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988: 30; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa:1970).

Listing NGR: SP3218965517

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661469

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version