Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE
1208-1/7/286 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.152-164 (Even)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARADE
(West side)
Nos.152, 154 AND 156)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARADE
(West side)
Nos.158 AND 160)
(Formerly Listed as:
PARADE
(West side)
Nos.162 AND 164)

GV II

Terrace of 7 houses, now shops. Numbered right to left,
described left to right. c1835 with later additions and
alterations including mid C20 shop fronts and semi-circular
portico to Regency Arcade and some rebuilding to rear. Brick
with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 14 first-floor windows, 2 to each
dwelling, extensions to rear. Remains of ground floor
channelled rustication.
First floor: Corinthian pilasters to end and 2 between each
dwelling through first and second floors, dentil frieze,
acanthus modillion cornice. Further plain pilasters above,
cornice, blocking course, copings.
First floor: 8 tall 6/9 sashes, six 12-pane French windows,
all in plain reveals and with tooled surrounds, frieze,
cornice.
Second floor: 6/6 sashes throughout in tooled surrounds and
with sills. Third floor: 3/6 sashes throughout in moulded
surrounds, interrupt band.
Ground floor: glazed shop fronts and portico to Nos. 152, 154
and 156 (Regency Arcade).
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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.
(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
.. Royal Leamington Spa: Leamington Spa: 1895-: 138).

Listing NGR: SP3178765678

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661542

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
• 
  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)