7, Charlotte Street

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3164NE CHARLOTTE STREET 1208-1/17/77 (North side) 25/03/70 No.7

GV II

House, now flats. c1818-1827, with later additions and alterations, including mid-C20 attic dormer. Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco facades, Welsh slate roof with cast-iron balcony. Central hallway plan. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and attic, 5 first-floor windows. Horizontal rustication to ground floor. From first to second floors a central slightly recessed panel, 1 window wide. First floor: 8-pane French windows with margin-lights, and divided overlights with louvred windows. Second floor has 6/6 sashes with sills. Frieze, modillion cornice. Ground floor: central entrance, 2 steps to 3-panel door, the lower panel roll-moulded, with overlight within distyle Doric porch with deep frieze and cornice. Otherwise 6/6 sashes. Basement has blocked openings. All openings in plain reveals. Raised gable ends with copings, block of end stacks. First floor has continuous balcony with Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade. Lion-and-wreath door knocker. INTERIOR has central, narrow-openwell staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. HISTORICAL NOTE: Charlotte Street was marked out by 181 and built along by 1834. Nos 7-19 (odd) Charlotte Street (qv) 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: SP3192864797