Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE REGENT STREET
1208-1/7/345 (North side)
Nos.39-61 (Odd)

GV II

Includes: Nos.40 AND 42 BEDFORD STREET.
Terrace of houses, now shops and flats. c1810-1830 with later
additions and alterations including mid-late C20 ground-floor
shop fronts. Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco to right
(No.61), painted brick to Nos 55, 57 and 59, and Welsh slate
roofs, except Nos 49-55 have cement tiles.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 21 first-floor windows. first floor has
(from left) two 6/1 sashes; five 6/6 sashes; two 1/1 sashes;
six 6/6 sashes; three tall 1/1 sashes; three 6/6 sashes.
Second floor: 3/3 sash; blind opening; seven 3/3 sashes;
single-pane casement; eleven 3/3 sashes. All openings in plain
reveals and with sills and flat channelled arches with raised
keystones.
Ground floor: to No.39A: steps to 6 fielded-panel door with
fanlight with radial glazing bars, imposts and moulded arch
with keystone; to right (No.42 Bedford Street) 2 roll-edged
steps to similar entrance, otherwise mainly C20 glazed shop
fronts.
Ridge stacks with cornices. Roof hipped to right. Right
return: 3 window range, first floor has three 6/6 sashes;
second floor has two 3/3 sashes and 3/6 sash. Ground floor has
C20 shop fronts.
INTERIOR: noted as retaining original plasterwork and joinery,
Nos 41 and 43 have central dog-leg staircase through first and
second floors has stick balusters; otherwise not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Regent Street, originally known as Cross
Street until the visit of Prince Regent in 1819, was among the
first of the 'New Town' streets to be laid out c1808-1808.
They were originally built as houses and had brick facades.
Forms a group with No.35 Regent Street (qv).

Listing NGR: SP3166465903

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661599

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
• 
  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings