The Guards Inn

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW HIGH STREET 1208-1/12/174 (North side) 12/04/95 No.45 The Guards Inn

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Public house, probably former shop and house. Early-mid C19 with later additions and alterations. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond, with painted stucco to ground floor, front facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor: central part-glazed door, otherwise 6/6 sashes. Second floor: 2/2 sashes. All windows in plain reveals and with sills. Ground floor: pair of off-centre entrances, part-glazed doors with overlights with margin-lights in fielded-panel reveals and within common doorcase with fluted architrave. To left a casement window in plain reveals and with sills. To right a shop front with central blocked part-glazed entrance between 2 casements, all with fielded panels beneath and with pilaster strips between, frieze and cornice. Modillion eaves cornice, right end stack with cornice. Gothick balcony to first-floor central opening. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: High Street was laid out c1810-1813 and first known as Warwick Row, it formed part of the High Road from Warwick to London. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 28; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-).

Listing NGR: SP3211465220