50, Holly Walk

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW HOLLY WALK 1208-1/9/10002 50 20-MAR-01

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House, in use as offices. Circa 1836-8; by William Thomas of Leamington. Stuccoed front, brick sides and rear. Slate roof with gabled ends. Brick stacks. PLAN: Two principal rooms, one on either side of central entrance hall, leading to central octagonal hall with stairhall beyond; large wing at rear left with outbuilding at back. Jacobean style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay north front; gabled left and right with large square bay windows; centre breaks forward with pilastered stuccoed porch with round arch and pierced spandrels, moulded strings above ground and first floor windows and continuing around the porch and bays; large mullion-transom windows in chamfered openings. Large brick octagonal lantern over centre with round-headed lights and shallow slate hipped roof. Rear [S] large gable-ended wing on right with small single-storey outbuilding with pointed arch windows. INTERIOR: Quarry tile hall floor; gallery around central octagon with balustrade of intersecting arches; niches in walls and ribbed ceiling to lantern. Staircase with elaborate turned balusters, moulded handrail and twisted newels with moulded finials; principal room with moulded plaster cornice and chimneypieces. SOURCES: [1] Buildings of England, p.337. [2] Colvin, H. Biographical Dictionary of British Architects, 1600-1840, p.974.

Listing NGR: SP3213165946