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Latitude: 52.2887 / 52°17'19"N
Longitude: -1.5354 / 1°32'7"W
OS Eastings: 431785
OS Northings: 265719
OS Grid: SP317657
Mapcode National: GBR 6NJ.GM6
Mapcode Global: VHBXJ.BQNV
Plus Code: 9C4W7FQ7+FR
Entry Name: 148 and 148A, Parade
Listing Date: 19 November 1953
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1381433
English Heritage Legacy ID: 481795
ID on this website: 101381433
Location: Royal Leamington Spa, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV32
County: Warwickshire
District: Warwick
Civil Parish: Royal Leamington Spa
Built-Up Area: Royal Leamington Spa
Traditional County: Warwickshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Warwickshire
Church of England Parish: Leamington Priors All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Coventry
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ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3165NE PARADE
1208-1/7/284 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.148 AND 148A
GV II
House, now bank and offices. Pinkish-brown brick with painted
stucco front facade and ashlar ground floor with Welsh slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. c1835, with later
additions and alterations including early-C20 ground floor.
First floor: 6/3 sashes in tooled surrounds with frieze and
cornice.
Second floor: 6/6 sashes with moulded sills. Frieze, dentil
cornice. Third floor: 3/3 sashes. All windows in plain
reveals. Frieze, cornice, blocking course.
Ground floor: arcade with 2 arches and Ionic columns, entrance
to right and central entrance a 6-panel double door with
overlight. Otherwise ground floor has plate-glass windows with
divided overlights, with central stepped keystones and
horizontal rustication to surrounds. To rear are 6/6 sashes
and staircase sash with radial glazing to head. Attic dog-leg
staircase has stick balusters.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including
shutters to some windows.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so-named in 1860. Originally
called Lillington Lane, it was renamed Union Row c1809. The
lower section was laid out c1810-1814 and extended towards
Dormer Place c1835. Built as houses, hotels and
lodging-houses, by 1850 many had become shops.
Ground floor forms a continuous architectural unit with No.150
(qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 33, 36-37; Manning JC (Facsimile by
Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past
.. Its History and Development: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-:
138).
Listing NGR: SP3178565719
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