26-28 Bath Street and 12-14 Spencer Street

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SP3165SE 1208-1/8/18

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA BATH STREET (West side) Nos.26 and 28

25/03/70

GV II

Includes: No.12 and 14 SPENCER STREET.

Two terraced houses, now shops with flats over. c1818-1836 with later additions and alterations including C20 ground-floor shop fronts. Reddish-brown brick in English Garden Wall bond with painted stucco facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron balcony.

PLAN: terrace continues around corner with angle curved on plan.

EXTERIOR: four storeys, seven first-floor windows arranged 3:4. Ground floor projects. Giant Tuscan pilasters through first and second floors to ends, to either side of angle and between three right windows. Stepped frieze, cornice. Moulded second floor band to left. To third floor are pilaster strips above these. First floor: tall blind opening; two tall 6/9 sashes; tall blind opening; tall 3/9 sash; two tall unequally-hung 1/1 sashes, all in plain reveals. Second floor: seven 6/6 sashes in plain reveals and with sills. Third floor: seven 3/6 sashes in plain reveals, continuous sill band interrupted to curve.

Ground floor: to west end a six-panel door with overlight with glazing-bars in tooled surround, otherwise plate-glass windows and glazed door to angle. Copings, ridge and end stacks. Continuous balcony to first floor, Bath Street facade has Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Bath Street was a main street of the C18 village of Leamington.

Forms a group with No.30 (qv).

(Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165SE SPENCER STREET 1208-1/8/18 (South side) 25/03/70 No.12

GV II

See under: Nos.26 AND 28 BATH STREET.

Listing NGR: SP3193265381