Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE REGENT STREET
1208-1/7/356 (North side)
25/03/70 Nos.91 AND 93
(Formerly Listed as:
REGENT STREET
(North side)
Nos.91 AND 93
The Golden Lion Inn)

GV II

Hotel, now bank. c1808-1813 with later alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. End full-height
pilasters. First floor has tall 1/1 sashes with margin-lights
with lunettes with carved acanthus and anthemion decoration,
within architrave of fluted pilasters with acanthus capitals
and round-arch with acanthus and beading.
Second floor has 1/1 sashes with margin-lights in tooled
architraves. Console modillions support cornice.
Ground floor: central entrance, double 10-panel door with
overlight in pilastered doorcase with consoles and frieze
supporting pediment.
Continuous frieze and cornice, otherwise plate-glass shop
windows. Stepped end stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly The Golden Lion Inn, this was one of
the very early New Town buildings. Regent Street, originally
known as Cross Street, was laid out c1808-1814. The first
houses built in a terrace development date from 1814. Nos 71
and 73 Parade together with Nos 87-93 (odd) Regent Street
(qqv) constitute a group.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our Local Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-: 140; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 33-34).

Listing NGR: SP3182065921

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661610

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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