Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE
1208-1/7/285 (West side)
19/11/53 No.150
Refuge House

GV II

House, now bank and offices. c1835 with later additions and
alterations including early-C20 ground floor, and late-C20
banking hall and extension to rear. Pinkish-brown brick with
painted stucco front facade and ashlar ground floor, Welsh
slate roof and cast-iron balcony.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Tuscan pilasters
through first and second floors to ends and between windows.
First floor: tall 6/6 sashes in tooled surrounds with frieze
and cornice. Second floor has 3/6 sashes in plain reveals and
with moulded sills. Frieze, dentil cornice.
Ground floor projects. Roll-moulded plinth. Arcade of 5 Ionic
columns on plinths. Entrance to 4th arcade, 6-panel
double-doors with fanlight with decorative glazing, with
hollow-moulded round arch. Plate-glass windows with divided
overlights. All openings have horizontal rustication to
surrounds and central stepped keystones. Modillion cornice.
Segmental pediment over 4th. arcade with foliate decoration
with beehive, inscribed 'NOTHING WITHOUT LABOUR' and
surmounted by balcony. End stack.
INTERIOR: shutters; 6-panel doors; moulded cornices;
narrow-openwell staircase from first to second floor has stick
balusters. Service staircase has turned balusters.
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.148
(qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 33, 36-37; Manning JC (Facsimile by
Warwickshire County Council 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past
.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 138).

Listing NGR: SP3178665709

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661541

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