26, Kenilworth Road

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE KENILWORTH ROAD 1208-1/3/193 (East side) No.26

GV II

Villa, now flats. c1836-1850 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade, stucco stacks and Welsh slate roof. 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Alternately rusticated quoins. Plinth. First floor: moulded band; 1/1 sashes with margin-lights in plain reveals and sills, blind boxes and Venetian blinds. Ground floor: 3 steps to central entrance a 4-panel, part-glazed door with basket-arched overlight and plain reveals, in hollow-chamfered surround with moulded architrave. Tripartite windows: 1/1 sashes with margin-lights between narrow 1/1 sashes with upper- and lower-lights with double-chamfered, cambered-arched surround, the outer hollow-moulded, in tooled architrave. Modillion cornice. Hipped roof. Tall end and roof stacks with modillion cornices. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Kenilworth Road was laid out 1834-8. Nos 20, 22, 26, 28, 30, 36, 38 and 46 (qqv) form an architectural group of villas.

Listing NGR: SP3176266926