Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW CLARENDON STREET
1208-1/4/409 (West side)
13/05/98 No.44

GV II

See under: No.128 WARWICK STREET.

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW WARWICK STREET
1208-1/4/409 (South side)
13/05/98 No.128

GV II

Formerly known as: King's Arms Inn WARWICK STREET.
Includes: No.44 CLARENDON STREET.
Former public house, now house. c1826, with later additions
and alterations including late-C19 single-storey range to left
return. Reddish-brown brick, partly whitewashed and rendered,
with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate and plain-tile roofs.
EXTERIOR: main range of 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows, with
lean-to to right and end and rear ranges. Plinth. First and
second floors have blind central windows, otherwise first
floor has 6/6 sashes and second floor has 3/6 sashes. Ground
floor: central entrance a part-glazed and panelled door, in
plain reveals, doorcase has Tuscan pilasters supporting frieze
and hood. All windows in plain reveals. End stacks with
cornices.
Range to left: 2 boarded and bricked-in basket-arched openings
with Tuscan column between supporting hollow-chamfered arch
with keystone and imposts; full-height pilaster to left;
modillion cornice. Hipped roof has raised centre.
Clarendon Street facade has double-chamfered, moulded plinth,
end pilasters. Centre projects.
2 outer similar recessed entrances 6-panel double-doors with
basket-arched overlights, now boarded over, reveals have
Tuscan pilaster strips; cambered arch with central keystone
and imposts. Between are tall, basket-arched window openings,
now boarded in and with Tuscan pilasters between. Moulded
cornice.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: in 1829 this was the King's Arms Inn. Warwick
Street was laid out in 1822-1826.
(Merridew J: Leamington Directory 1829; Manning JC (Facsimile
by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local
Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 125;
Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3203166094

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661668

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, Conservation Areas and Monuments
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
• 
  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)