Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

1208-1/9/255 NEWBOLD TERRACE EAST
11-JUN-1973 (North side)
26

(Formerly listed as:
NEWBOLD TERRACE
26)

II

Villa. Mid C19, with later additions and alterations. Brick
with painted stucco and Welsh slate roof.
Italianate style.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows with recessed,
3-storey, single-window tower to right. Moulded plinth,
rusticated band to angles at ground-floor level, quoins to
first floor. 13 roll-edged steps to off-centre entrance, a
part-glazed, 4-panel door between glazed sidelights with
pilaster strips between, all under large, semi-circular
fanlight with etched glass, within distyle fluted Corinthian
porch with similar pilasters.
To left are two round-arched, 1/1 sashes with moulded aprons
between pilaster strips supporting moulded round arch with
foliage in spandrels and with central keystone.
To right a rusticated canted bay (to full height) has moulded
imposts, keystone. To right a Tuscan pergola, now glazed.
Moulded dentil first-floor cornice.
First floor has 3 round-arched plate-glass and French windows
with 'balconies' with bulbous balusters and tooled architraves
with central keystones and foliage to spandrels.
Canted bay has 4 round-arched plate-glass windows, with
pilasters between and central column all with Corinthian
capitals, with moulded round arches with central keystones and
aprons. Modillion frieze with corbels and cornice. Low parapet
has bulbous balusters interrupted by squat pedestals. Hipped
roof and end stacks.
Tower: ground floor concealed by pergola; first floor has pair
of blind, round-arched recesses with central keystones and
continuous moulded impost band. Second floor has 3 tall,
narrow, round-arched windows with 1/1 sashes and Tuscan
pilasters between with continuous, moulded, round-arched
heads; Tuscan pilasters on plinths with recessed panels clasp
angels. Tent roof, end stack.
INTERIOR: moulded cornices to some rooms, that to left has
deep acanthus frieze, that to right has grape frieze. Entrance
hall ceiling is partitioned with moulded cornices and ceiling
roses. Openwell staircase has ornate cast-iron balusters and
wreathed handrail. 4-pane doors.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Newbold Terrace was begun in 1828 but not
completed for many years.

Forms an architectural group with No.27 (qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3234265906

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661509

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)