Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE SPENCER STREET
1208-1/8/375 (North side)
25/03/70 Nos.1 AND 3

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now house, restaurant and
nursery. Dated 1842 on rainwater head, with later additions
and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick, whitewashed to front and
side facades, with Welsh slate, fish-scale roof. Neo-Tudor
style.
PLAN: central hallway.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 5 first-floor windows of
which the 2nd and 4th are in projecting, gabled bays, with
further range to rear left of 2 storeys, 1 first-floor window.
Main range has double-chamfered plinth.
First floor: moulded band to centre, above which first floor
projects slightly. 3 small canted oriel windows, that to
centre with traceried lights, with 2-light 'mullion and
transom' casements between with chamfered surrounds and sills
and beneath hollow-moulded hoods.
Ground floor: left and central entrances, steps to part-glazed
doors, the upper panels arched, in 4-centre-arched surround
with hoodmould.
2 canted bay windows with 'mullion and transom' casement
windows, to right a 3-light 'mullion and transom' casement
with chamfered surround and sill, hoodmould and blind box.
Basement has casement windows. Quatrefoil decoration to gable,
that to left with hoodmould. Decorative bargeboards. Range to
left, first floor has casement window with cambered arch and
chamfered surround and sill. Ground floor: board door with
unglazed fanlight with ornate ironwork, beneath cogged arch in
chamfered surround. Also inscribed to rainwater head: 'JG'.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: c1872, No.3 was the home of Dr Frederick F
Haynes, one of the first players of lawn tennis, a game
developed in Royal Leamington Spa. Spencer Street was laid out
1832-1850.
(Gibbons WG: Royal Leamington Spa, The Seeds of Lawn Tennis:
Coventry: 1986-: 33-35; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 32).

Listing NGR: SP3183865385

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661641

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