Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE
1208-1/9/222 (North side)
25/03/70 Nos.21 AND 23
with attached walls and railings
(Formerly Listed as:
LEAM TERRACE
(North side)
Nos.17-23 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now house and rest home and
attached wall and railings. c1834-1838 with later alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate
roof and cast-iron railings. Neo-Tudor style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic to gables and basement, 4
first-floor windows, 2 to each house, outer bays project and
are gabled.
First floor: band; outer bays have 2/2 sashes, otherwise 1/1
sashes, all with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds, blind
boxes to left 2 windows. Attics to gable: central window a
6-pane casement with pointed-arched overlight in chamfered,
pointed-arched surround and with hoodmould with male and
female headstops. Further 6-pane casement to each with plain
reveals. To centre of upper storey a blind arcade, above that
a corbel table and above again a blind arcade.
Ground floor: castellated pair of central porches have 5
roll-edged steps to pointed-arched openings with roll-moulded
surrounds. Within are part-glazed doors with Gothic tracery to
heads of upper panels and pointed-arched overlights with
stained glass and Gothic glazing-bars. Outer bays have
unequally-hung, tall 1/1 sash to left and 6/9 sash to right,
both with verandahs with 4-centred-arched balustrade, posts
and cusped frieze.
Basement: alike, concealed entrances below steps, 8/8 sashes.
Gables have finials to centre and sides. End stacks.
Rear: 8/8 sashes.
INTERIOR of No.23: shutters to several rooms. Entrance hall
has cornice with fleurons, sitting room has cornice with
foliage. Dogleg staircase has stick balusters and wreathed
handrail. Mainly 4-panel doors. Coal cellars under driveway.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative lancet railings across front
and to sides of steps. To right a castellated wall with
pointed-arched, chamfered openings. Similar wall and opening
to left, but with battlements partly removed adjoins No.19
(qv).

HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836 and both
sides to Willes Road were almost completely built by 1841.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3226065532

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661475

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