Refuge House is a Grade II listed building in the Warwick local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 November 1953. House. 9 related planning applications.
Refuge House
- WRENN ID
- slow-portal-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warwick
- Constituency
- Warwick and Leamington MP: Matt Western (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 November 1953
- Type
- House
- Address
- Refuge House, 150, Parade, Royal Leamington Spa, CV32 4AG
- OS grid reference
- SP 317 657
- Coordinates
- 52.28862, -1.53541
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Refuge House is a building located in Royal Leamington Spa, dating from around 1835, with later additions and alterations, including an early 20th-century ground floor and a late 20th-century banking hall and extension to the rear. The structure is made of pinkish-brown brick with a painted stucco front facade and an ashlar ground floor, topped with a Welsh slate roof and featuring a cast-iron balcony.
The exterior consists of three storeys with three first-floor windows. Tuscan pilasters run through the first and second floors at the ends and between the windows. The first floor has tall 6/6 sash windows in tooled surrounds, complete with a frieze and cornice. The second floor features 3/6 sash windows in plain reveals with moulded sills. The ground floor projects outward and has a roll-moulded plinth, with an arcade of five Ionic columns on plinths. The entrance is through the fourth arcade, which has 6-panel double doors with a fanlight that includes decorative glazing, all framed by a hollow-moulded round arch. The plate-glass windows have divided overlights, and all openings are accented with horizontal rustication and central stepped keystones. A modillion cornice runs along the top, and there is a segmental pediment over the fourth arcade featuring foliate decoration with a beehive and the inscription 'NOTHING WITHOUT LABOUR', topped by a balcony. There is also an end stack.
Inside, the building features shutters, 6-panel doors, moulded cornices, and a narrow open-well staircase leading from the first to the second floor, which has stick balusters. A service staircase is equipped with turned balusters.
Historically, the Parade was named in 1860, having originally been called Lillington Lane and renamed Union Row around 1809. The lower section was laid out between 1810 and 1814 and extended towards Dormer Place around 1835. Initially built as houses, hotels, and lodging-houses, many had transitioned to shops by 1850. The ground floor of Refuge House forms a continuous architectural unit with No. 148.
Local climate
Refuge House receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
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- Related listed building consents — 9 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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