148 AND 148A, PARADE

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE 1208-1/7/284 (West side) 19/11/53 Nos.148 AND 148A

GV II

House, now bank and offices. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and ashlar ground floor with Welsh slate roof. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys, 2 first-floor windows. c1835, with later additions and alterations including early-C20 ground floor. First floor: 6/3 sashes in tooled surrounds with frieze and cornice. Second floor: 6/6 sashes with moulded sills. Frieze, dentil cornice. Third floor: 3/3 sashes. All windows in plain reveals. Frieze, cornice, blocking course. Ground floor: arcade with 2 arches and Ionic columns, entrance to right and central entrance a 6-panel double door with overlight. Otherwise ground floor has plate-glass windows with divided overlights, with central stepped keystones and horizontal rustication to surrounds. To rear are 6/6 sashes and staircase sash with radial glazing to head. Attic dog-leg staircase has stick balusters. INTERIOR: noted as retaining original joinery including shutters to some windows. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so-named in 1860. Originally called Lillington Lane, it was renamed Union Row c1809. The lower section was laid out c1810-1814 and extended towards Dormer Place c1835. Built as houses, hotels and lodging-houses, by 1850 many had become shops. Ground floor forms a continuous architectural unit with No.150 (qv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 33, 36-37; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Its History and Development: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 138).

Listing NGR: SP3178565719