58 AND 58A, PARADE

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE PARADE 1208-1/2/266 (West side) 18/08/80 Nos.58 AND 58A

II

House, now shop and flats. c1818-30 with later additions and alterations including extension to rear and mid-C20 ground floor shop front. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stucco dressings, concealed roof and cast-iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. First floor: tall 6/6 sashes; second and third floors: 3/6 sashes; all with plain reveals and rusticated heads with keystone. Tall end stack with cornice, to left. Continuous first-floor balcony has Caron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif. INTERIOR: to second and third floors a dog-leg staircase with remains of stick balusters. Ground and first floors have mid-C20 interiors. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so named in 1860. Originally Lillington Lane, it was renamed Union Row c1809 then Union Parade by 1814. The lower section was of the road was laid out and built c1810-18, the upper section, west side was built 1827-1840. Built as houses, hotels and lodging-houses, most had become shops by 1850.

Listing NGR: SP3174966030