Number 9 And Attached Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3164NE CHARLOTTE STREET 1208-1/17/78 (North side) 25/03/70 No.9 and attached railings

GV II

House, now flats and attached railings. 1818-1827 with later additions and alterations including mid-C20 attic dormers. Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings and balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and attic, 5 first-floor windows, with extension to rear. Horizontal rustication to ground floor. Through first and second floors a central slightly recessed panel, 1 window wide. First floor has central French window, partly boarded, otherwise 8-pane French windows with divided overlights, all with margin-lights. Second floor has 6/6 sashes with sills. Frieze, modillion cornice. Ground floor: 3 steps to central entrance a 3-panel door with roll-moulded lower panel with overlight within distyle Doric porch with frieze and cornice. Otherwise 6/6 sashes with sills. Basement has concealed entrance below porch, otherwise blocked openings. All windows in plain reveals. Raised gable ends with copings. Tall end stacks. Balcony to first floor has Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings abut sides of porch and have mainly fleur-de-lys finials, some replaced, and newel posts with urn finials; gate to basement has spikes. HISTORICAL NOTE: Charlotte Street was marked out by 1818 and built along by 1834. Nos 7-19 (odd) Charlotte Street (qqv) constitute an architectural group. (Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa.: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 26; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3194264803