Former Town Hall

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW HIGH STREET 1208-1/12/175 (South side) 19/11/53 No.54 Former Town Hall

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Town hall, then police station, now club. Built 1830-31 with later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical Classical design. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 3-first-floor windows to centre with projecting, single-window ranges joined by distyle fluted Ionic portico in antis. Horizontal rustication to right floor, basement. Flight of 10 steps to central entrance, 4-panel double doors with overlight in tooled surround with cornice on corbels. To left a further entrance a 4-panel door inserted to left in taller, wider surround with plain reveals. To right a blind window. First floor has outer blind windows and central 3/1 sash. Wings have 6/6 sashes to ground floor and 3/1 and 3/3 sashes to first floor. All windows with sills and in plain reveals. Basement has 10/10 sashes to wings. Continuous frieze, moulded cornice-parapet. Roof dormer to attic, partly concealed. Hipped roof. End and ridge stacks with cornices. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: foundation stone laid 24 June 1830, the Town Hall was used for the first time on 27 June 1831. High Street, first known as Warwick Row, was laid out 1810-1813 and formed part of the former High Road from Warwick to London. (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-: 27-28; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 335).

Listing NGR: SP3216865169