54, Leam Terrace

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE 1208-1/9/231 (South side) 25/03/70 No.54

GV II

Villa. c1834-1838, with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Plinth. Horizontal rustication to ground floor. First-floor band surmounted by Tuscan pilasters to ends and between windows. Plain frieze, low parapet with copings. First floor: 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with moulded surrounds. Ground floor: 4 roll-edged steps to central entrance within distyle Tuscan porch with engaged pilasters. 4-panel door between narrow pilaster strips and margin-lights, fanlight with radial glazing. To left a canted bay with 1/1 sashes and blind boxes. To right a tripartite window, the centre a 6/6 sash between 2/2 sashes. Raised eaves to left, end stack with cornice. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836, both sides as far as Willes Road were almost completely built by 1841. Nos 54-66 (even) Leam Terrace (qv) and No.2 Farley Street (qv) form an architectural group of villas. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 30; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 338).

Listing NGR: SP3240865506