Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE
1208-1/7/265 (East side)
01/01/70 Nos.53, 53A, 55 AND 57

GV II

Three houses, now shops. c1818-30 with later additions and
alterations including c1900 shop front to left (No.53);
mid-C20 shop fronts to ground floors to 2 right dwellings (Nos
55 & 57). Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades,
concealed roof and cast-iron balcony.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 7 first-floor windows arranged 2-3-2. The
centre bay projects from first floor and is taller.
Ground floor has remains of horizontal rustication. From first
through second floor are 12 Tuscan pilasters, 2 to each end of
outer bays, 1 to each end of central projection and 1 between
each window. Frieze with wreaths, cornice.
First floor has tall 6/9 sashes with blind boxes.
Second floor has 6/6 sashes with sills.
Third floor has 3/6 sashes. All windows have plain reveals.
Cornice, low parapet, copings, with central panel containing
anthemion decoration, dentil frieze, cornice, low parapet,
copings.
Ground floor: pair of original entrances to Nos 53A & 55 with
common tristyle Roman Doric porch with frieze and cornice.
3 roll-edged steps to ornate-panelled doors, that to left
part-glazed; overlights, with glazing bars to left. Plain
reveals, tooled surrounds and horizontal rustication.
Otherwise, entrance to left (No.53) a plate-glass door within
projecting glazed shop front with panelled plinth and
decorative pilasters, continuous overlight. End stacks. First
floor has continuous balcony projecting over porch with Carron
Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally Lillington Lane, it was re-named
Union Row c1809 and then Union Parade in 1814 with most
building activity to the lower section c1810-1818 and to the
upper section, east side from 1824-1840. Built as houses,
hotels and lodging-houses, by 1850 most had become shops.

Listing NGR: SP3178665986

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661520

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Recommended Books

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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)