51 And 53, Warwick Street

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE WARWICK STREET 1208-1/2/397 (North side) Nos.51 AND 53

GV II

2 houses, now shops with flats and offices over. Early-mid C19 with mid C20 ground-floor shop fronts. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and concealed roof and with cast-iron balcony railings to left. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 bays. Horizontal rustication to centre and banded pilasters to ends through first and second floors. First floor: outer canted bay windows have 6-pane French windows with divided overlights all with margin-lights between 4-pane windows with sidelights, all in plain reveals with tooled surrounds, frieze and cornice. Central 6-pane French window with overlight and margin-lights, with flat arch and raised keystone. Second floor: outer bays have 6/6 between 4/4 sashes; to centre a 6/6 sash, all in plain reveals and with moulded sills. Frieze, cornice, low parapet with sunk panels; to ends are finials, missing to left, and to centre are 2 anthemion acroteria. Left stack with cornice. Ground floor: glazed doors in glazed shop fronts. To first floor, left a continuous balcony with elongated-figure-of-8-and-circle motif balustrade. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Warwick Street was laid out c1822-26. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3170566089