Liberal Club

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW HOLLY WALK (UPPER) 1208-1/4/181 (North side) 25/03/70 No.87 Liberal Club

GV II

Villa, now club. c1838 with later additions and alterations. By William Thomas, of Leamington and Canada. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and Welsh slate roof. STYLE: Neo-Tudor. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with single-storey, single bay to left and 2-storey, single bay to right. Main range has pilaster buttresses to angles with Gothic decoration and pyramidal caps. Central entrance in projecting porch: double part-glazed doors with 4-centred overlight in hollow-moulded surround with 1 order of columns; hoodmould with face-stops; quatrefoil decoration to spandrels, segmental pedimented upshot and octagonal buttresses with onion caps to angles. Ground floor has outer bays with pointed 'lancet' windows, 3 to centres and 2 to sides, surmounted by Gothic balustrade. First floor: outer bays have pair of 3-light windows with Gothic heads and margin-lights, divided overlights with remains of quatrefoil glazing; hollow-moulded hoodmould. To centre a 4-pane lancet with margin-lights. Second floor: similar 4- and 2-pane lancets with margin-lights, all in chamfered surrounds with sills and hollow-moulded hoods. Shaped gables with pointed finials, smaller pointed gable to centre, all with hollow-chamfered surrounds. Tall end stacks with cornices. Left range: lancet window in chamfered surround with hoodmould; battlements. Right range: 3-light lancet window with hoodmould. To rear: ground floor Gothic bay window; 6-pane French windows. INTERIOR: ground floor, right drawing room has upper part of triple ogee-arched arcade with fleurons and pinnacles with finials. Windows have moulded architraves. To hall are 2 Gothic pilasters. Ogeed arch with fleurons leads to French windows. First floor has pair of 6-pane Gothic doors. Forms an architectural group with Nos 79 and 81, 83, and 85 Holly Walk (Upper) (qqv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 57).

Listing NGR: SP3235866086