Angel Hotel

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE REGENT STREET 1208-1/7/360 (North side) 25/03/70 No.143 Angel Hotel

GV II

Hotel. c1818 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and hipped Welsh slate roof with ridge stacks. Neo-Classical style. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys with attics, 4 bays, the fourth is wider and of 2 storeys. Chamfered plinth, quoins to ground floor to ends and double set of quoins between 3rd. and 4th. bays surmounted by Tuscan pilasters to first floor. First-floor band. 6/6 sashes to first and 3rd. bays, 6/6 sash to 2nd. bay, and tripartite sash of 6/6 sash between 2/2 sashes with apron below and framed panel above. Second floor has 6/6 sashes to 1st. and 3rd. bays and 3/6 sash between, all with sills. Continuous frieze, cornice and low parapet. Ground floor: 3 steps to entrance in second bay a 4-fielded-panel door with fanlight in plain reveals and with roll-moulded surround, cavetto-moulded round arch with central keystone; part-fluted pilasters curve outwards to form brackets supporting deep cornice. 2/2 sash, 1/1 sash and long casement window, sills. Right return of 3 storeys, 7 bays. Plinth, channelled rustication to ground floor surmounted by Tuscan pilasters to first and second floors between first and second, third and fourth, and fifth and sixth bays. First and second floors have 6/6 sashes with sills and flat arches with keystones, those to first floor with aprons. Frieze, cornice and blocking course. Ground floor: elliptical carriage arch with Gibbs surround occupies bays 4 and 5. 8/8 sashes with sills. Roof lights to attic. Left return of 3 storeys, 4 bays. Quoins and Tuscan pilaster to right bay. First floor, right bay: band, tripartite window with 6/6 sash between 2/2 sashes; otherwise two 6/6, and 8/8 sashes with flat rusticated arches. Second floor has tripartite sliding sash with centre of 12 panes between 6 panes to right bay, otherwise two 3/6, and 6/6 sash with flat rusticated arches. Ground floor has tripartite 1/1 sash. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Regent Street, originally known as Cross Street, was laid out c1808-1814. (Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal

Leamington Spa: 1895-: 142).

Listing NGR: SP3200465948