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SP3265NW
1208-1/9/221

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
LEAM TERRACE (North side)
Nos.17 and 19 with attached wall and railings

(Formerly Listed as: LEAM TERRACE (North side) Nos.17-23 (Odd))

25/03/70

GV
II

Semi-detached villa, now flats with attached wall and railings. c1834-1838 with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof, cast-iron railings and wooden verandahs. Neo-Tudor style.

EXTERIOR: two storeys with attics to gable and basements, four first-floor windows, two to each house. Outer bays are gabled and project.

First floor: band. From left: 2/2 sash; 1/1 sash; three-pane casement, the upper pane with pointed-arched glazing bars, with margin-lights; six-pane casement with margin-lights (some margin glazing-bars removed to both windows), chamfered surrounds.

Attics: outer bays have six-pane casements with margin-lights and pointed-arched overlight, in pointed-arched, chamfered surround, with hoodmould with face stops. Otherwise twelve-pane casements with plain reveals. To centre a blind arcade, above that a corbel table, then a blind arcade.

Ground floor, pair of castellated central porches with steps to pointed-arched openings with roll-moulded surround. Entrances within have part-glazed doors, that to right has gothic tracery to heads of upper panes, both have pointed-arched overlights, that to right with Gothic glazing-bars. To left, a six-pane French window with four-pane divided overlight, and to right a four-pane French window with divided overlight both with verandahs with balconies, that to left with four-centred-arches, posts and cusped cornice. Basements have glazed doors and 8/8 sashes. Finials to gable. End stacks.

INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery including shutters to some windows.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative lancet railings and to sides of steps. Wall to right with pointed-arched, chamfered opening and remains of battlements adjoins No.21 (qv).

HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836 and almost completely built to Willes Road by 1841.

(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: SP3224365529

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661474

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