Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/9/218 (North side)
25/03/70 No.13
and attached wall
(Formerly Listed as:
LEAM TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.9, 11 AND 13)

GV II

Villa and attached walls. 1833-1836 with later alterations.
Possibly by John Mair for Letts. Pinkish-brown brick with
stucco facade and Welsh slate roof. Neo-Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic to gable, 2
first-floor windows; gable end to street. First floor: band.
6-pane casements with margin-lights, chamfered surrounds and
hoodmoulds. Attic has triple 2-pane casement windows with
margin-lights, hoodmould, sill.
Ground floor, entrance to left: 2 steps to pointed-arched
opening with chamfered surround, hoodmould with face stops.
Within a multi-pane door. Two 8-pane French windows with
overlights with pointed-arched glazing bars, all with
margin-lights. Continuous balcony with 4-centred-arched
balustrade.
Basement: part-glazed door and 4/8 sash. Decorative
bargeboards to gable end, end stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: To right an embattled wall with
4-centred-arched, chamfered opening with plank door, adjoins
similar wall to No.11 (qv).
HISTORICAL NOTE: Letts bought the land in 1833; John Mair,
Architect, of London was one of the signatories. 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 upon by
1841.
Forms an architectural group with Nos 9 & 11 (qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 30; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Title deeds to No.11
Leam Terrace).

Listing NGR: SP3221065521

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661471

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