Jephson Mansions And Attached Railings Numbers 23 And 24 And 25 And Attached Railings

Jephson Mansions, Numbers 23, 24 and 25, Royal Leamington Spa

A terrace of four houses, now converted to flats, with attached railings. Built circa 1828–1840, with later additions and alterations including a rear extension. The building is constructed of pinkish-brown brick with a painted stucco façade and a Welsh slate roof, featuring cast-iron porches and verandahs.

The building rises four storeys with a basement. The main façade has fourteen first-floor windows arranged in a 5-3-3-3 rhythm. The ground floor is distinguished by horizontal rustication. The first floor displays five tall 1/1 sashes with margin-lights and blind boxes, and nine tall 6/9 sashes with Venetian blinds and blind boxes, all set in tooled architraves. The second floor contains five 1/1 sashes with margin-lights, three 6/6 sashes, three 6/4 sashes, and three 6/1 sashes, all with tooled architraves, sills and cornices. The third floor has five 3/3 long-pane sashes, two casements, and otherwise 3/6 sashes, set in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills. A frieze, cornice, and low parapet complete the main façade.

The ground floor features entrances beneath the 8th and 11th windows and to the returns. The main façade entrances are accessed by eight steps and lead to part-glazed, panelled doors with part-glazed side panels beneath elliptical overlights with glazing bars. The central entrance to the left return is reached by six roll-edged steps leading to an 8-panel door with part-glazed side panels and an elliptical overlight with glazing bars, housed within a projecting distyle Ionic porch with Tuscan pilasters, frieze, and dentil cornice. The right return has seven steps to a part-glazed, 4-panel door between sidelights, beneath a blind elliptical overlight and rusticated elliptical arch within a porch with Tuscan pillars and pilasters, plain frieze, and cornice.

The basement level has mainly part-glazed doors with overlights with glazing bars and mainly 6/6 and 3/6 sashes. The roof is hipped with ridge stacks.

Decorative ironwork includes a wreath-and-lion-head knocker on No. 24 and a porch with diamond-and-scroll pattern on No. 25. The first-floor verandah features an anthemion-and-circle motif to the balustrade and double struts to uprights.

The left return displays horizontal rustication to the ground floor, 1/1 sashes with margin-lights in tooled architraves with dentil pediments and aprons to the first and third floors, otherwise 3/3 sashes and blind openings. A frieze and cornice complete the elevation. The right return, containing three first-floor windows, has horizontal rustication and blind openings to the first floor, otherwise mainly 6/6 and 3/6 sashes with openings primarily in moulded architraves and sills; those to the first and second floors have cornices.

The subsidiary features include lancet area railings and gates with newel posts topped by urn finials. The right return has pairs of stick railings with anthemion and paterae between which the porch is situated.

Newbold Terrace was begun in 1828 but not completed for many years.