Wentworth House And Attached Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NW GROVE STREET 1208-1/6/163 (West side) 25/03/70 No.48 Wentworth House and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.6 REGENT STREET. Two houses and attached railings. c1828, with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron railings and balconies. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attics and basements, 4 first-floor windows. First floor: tall 6/9 sashes. Second floor: 3/6 sashes with sills. Attics: roof dormer to left has casement window. Basement has 8/8 sashes. Ground floor: 6/6 sashes with sills. All windows in plain reveals. Entrances to left and right returns. To left, (No.48 Grove Street): 5 steps to central entrance a 6-fielded-panel door with overlight within fielded-pilastered surround with hood on corbels. Left return has outer blind openings in plain reveals and with sills, 2 per floor. Right return (No.6 Regent Street): 3 storeys, 2 first-floor openings. First floor: tall 6/9 sash and blind opening. Second floor: blind openings. Ground floor: to left a 6/6 sash. All windows in plain reveals and with sills. Entrance: steps to panelled door within projecting porch with Tuscan pilasters, frieze and copings, round-arched single-lights to sides of porch. Hipped roof. Central stack with cornice. Main facade, first floor, each house has continuous balcony with double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade, also to first floor, left window of right return. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings to front and returns with gate to basement have alternate anthemion and sword-hilt finials. HISTORICAL NOTE: Grove Street was laid out in 1828, the west side and lower part of the east side were built by 1834. Forms an architectural group with No.50, Grove Street (qv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NW REGENT STREET 1208-1/6/163 (South side) 25/03/70 No.6

GV II

See under: No.48 Wentworth House and attached railings GROVE STREET.

Listing NGR: SP3138465872