Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/9/217 (North side)
25/03/70 No.11
Riverside and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
LEAM TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.9, 11 AND 13)

GV II

Villa with attached walls. 1833-1836. Possibly by John Mair of
London, for Mr Letts, Samuel Turner and Thomas and RH Hootton
of Sussex. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front
facade and Welsh slate roof. Neo-Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 2 first-floor
windows. Gable end to street. First floor: band. 8-pane
casements with pointed-arched glazing bars to heads and
margin-lights, chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. Central
window to gable a single-pane casement with pointed-arched
overlight and margin-lights 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 with face stops.
Within a 4-panel, part-glazed door with etched glass and
gothic tracery to head. Two 8-pane French windows with
overlights with pointed-arched glazing bars and margin-lights.
Continuous balcony with 4-centred-arched balustrade.
Basement has part-glazed, 4-panel door and two 4/8 sashes.
Decorative barge-boards to gable ends, end stacks. To rear are
several 6/6 sashes, ground floor has tripartite window. Side
entrance to basement a part-glazed door has 12 panes with
margin-lights.
INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase has stick balusters and wreathed
handrail. Cornice with fleurons to hall. Mainly 4-panel doors.
Shutters to front, ground-floor windows and to basement. Plain
marble chimneypiece to front room, frieze and cornice with
grape-and-leaf motif, elliptically-arched recess to rear wall.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to either side an embattled wall with
4-centre-arched, chamfered openings, one blocked, one with
plank door.
HISTORICAL NOTE: deeds to the house indicate Letts bought the
land in 1833; John Mair, Architect of London was one of the
signatories. In 1836 he sold an unfinished house to Samuel
Turner who sold again that year to Thomas Hootton of Surrey.
In 1839 he sold to RH Hootton. The house is shown on

'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
almost completely built upon to Willes Road by c1841.
Forms an architectural group with Nos 9 and 13 (qv).
(Title deeds; 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: SP3220065518

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661470

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Recommended Books

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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas