Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW ST MARK'S ROAD, New Milverton
1208-1/1/433 (North East side)
25/03/70 Nos.4, 6 AND 8
The Old Vicarage
(Formerly Listed as:
ST MARK'S ROAD
(North East side)
St Mark's Vicarage)

GV II

Former vicarage to St Mark's Church, now 3 dwellings. 1879
with later alterations including conversion of c1970.
Architect George Gilbert Scott junior. Pinkish-red brick with
pinker brick banding to main facade and ashlar dressings,
plain tile roof.
STYLE: Queen Anne Revival.
EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys with attics, 3 first-floor
windows, with service wing to left of 2 lower storeys, 5
first-floor windows.
Main range: projects, chamfered plinth. First floor: moulded
band, tall 4/4 sashes in roll-moulded surrounds with
keystones, tooled sills, continuous band at sill level,
cornice interrupted by windows. Further moulded cornice. Attic
dormer with Dutch surround.
Ground floor: 4 roll-edged steps to panelled, round-arched
door in surround with mannerist fluted Doric columns on
plinths with segmental pediment. 3 tall 6/4 sashes in
roll-moulded surrounds with keystones, sills and continuous
band at sill level. Hipped roof with glazed stairwell. Tall
stacks with plain buttresses. Shaped gables interrupted by
stack to left, incorporated in facade to right return.
Range to left: first floor: continuous band, 4/4 sashes with
moulded sills; alternately proud and flush cornice.
Ground floor: 3 pairs of 2/2 sashes with moulded sills and
continuous band at sill level, flat arches of rubbed brick.
Right return: 2 storeys with attics, 3 bays. Outer full-height
rectangular bay windows.
First floor: bay windows have pair of 4/4 sashes to fronts and
4/4 sashes to sides with moulded sills, impost bands,
roll-moulding to angles, moulded flat arches with keystones
and above paired windows are pairs of segmental pediments,
above these are balconies with balustrades. To centre a 4/4
sashes with moulded sill, continuous band at sill level,
roll-moulded surround, moulded flat arch with keystone,
pediment. Continuous cornice.

Ground floor: moulded steps to central entrance a 6-panel door
in pilastered surround, above this a small 4-pane window with
sill. Outer bays have 6/4 sashes, moulded sill, impost band,
continuous moulded cornice. Pair of curvilinear gables with
pediments, each have 2 pairs of 6/6 sashes, round arch with
keystone, moulded copings.
Rear facades: 4/4 sashes to first floor, 6/4 to ground floor,
attic dormer as front.
INTERIOR: openwell staircase has onion-on-bobbin balusters,
stairwell has deep coving with moulded fruit; 6-panel doors,
some with pulvinated friezes and pediments.
Forms an architectural group with Boundary Wall and Railings
to Nos 4, 6 and 8 St Mark's Road (qv) and St Mark's Church,
Rugby Road (qv), all by Scott.

Listing NGR: SP3101466345

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661632

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