Gordon House And Gordon Passage

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW RUSSELL TERRACE 1208-1/12/366 (North side) Gordon House, No.3A Gordon Passage

GV II

House, now 3 flats. 1810 with later additions and alterations including later C19 ground-floor bay windows and late-C20 extension to left. For the Duchess of Gordon. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with dressings of red rubbed brick and plain tile roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows, with attics to gable. First and second floors: 4/4 sashes, larger to first floor, all in plain reveals, all with horns, sills and flat arches of gauged brick. Ground floor: central entrance a part-glazed, panelled door in plain reveals and with flat arch of gauged brick, in distyle Doric porch with engaged half-columns, frieze and cornice. Canted bays each have three 4/4 sashes with horns, friezes and cornices. Modillion eaves cornice, end stacks with cornices. Small casement windows to gables. INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with stick balusters and turned newel post. HISTORICAL NOTE: The Gordon family were among the first of the nobility to patronise the Spa. Russell Terrace was laid out c1828-36. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 29).

Listing NGR: SP3218765358