Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE PARADE
1208-1/2/263 (West side)
No.44

GV II

House, now shop. c1818-30 with later additions and alterations
including mid-C20 ground-floor shop front.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Through first,
second and third floors are giant Ionic pilasters to ends.
First floor: tall 6/6 sashes. Second floor: continuous sill
band, 6/6 sashes. Third floor: 3/6 sashes with sills. All in
plain reveals. Frieze, copings. Tall end stacks.
Right return to Warwick Street: round-arched staircase window
a 3/9 sash with radial-glazing to head and with margin-lights,
in plain reveals and with sill. Band to gable.
INTERIOR: openwell staircase from first floor has stick
balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so-named in 1860, as Upper
Parade and Lower Parade. Originally Lillington Lane, it was
renamed Union Row c1809 and then Union Parade by 1814 and the
Parade in 1860. The lower section was laid out c1810-1814,
with mast building activity c1810-1818, the upper section,
west side was built 1827-1840. Built as houses, hotels and
lodging-houses, by 1850 most had become shops.
Occupies an important corner site.

Listing NGR: SP3174766070

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661518

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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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