26, Newbold Terrace East

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

1208-1/9/255 NEWBOLD TERRACE EAST 11-JUN-1973 (North side) 26 (Formerly listed as: NEWBOLD TERRACE 26)

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Villa. Mid C19, with later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco and Welsh slate roof. Italianate style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 4 first-floor windows with recessed, 3-storey, single-window tower to right. Moulded plinth, rusticated band to angles at ground-floor level, quoins to first floor. 13 roll-edged steps to off-centre entrance, a part-glazed, 4-panel door between glazed sidelights with pilaster strips between, all under large, semi-circular fanlight with etched glass, within distyle fluted Corinthian porch with similar pilasters. To left are two round-arched, 1/1 sashes with moulded aprons between pilaster strips supporting moulded round arch with foliage in spandrels and with central keystone. To right a rusticated canted bay (to full height) has moulded imposts, keystone. To right a Tuscan pergola, now glazed. Moulded dentil first-floor cornice. First floor has 3 round-arched plate-glass and French windows with 'balconies' with bulbous balusters and tooled architraves with central keystones and foliage to spandrels. Canted bay has 4 round-arched plate-glass windows, with pilasters between and central column all with Corinthian capitals, with moulded round arches with central keystones and aprons. Modillion frieze with corbels and cornice. Low parapet has bulbous balusters interrupted by squat pedestals. Hipped roof and end stacks. Tower: ground floor concealed by pergola; first floor has pair of blind, round-arched recesses with central keystones and continuous moulded impost band. Second floor has 3 tall, narrow, round-arched windows with 1/1 sashes and Tuscan pilasters between with continuous, moulded, round-arched heads; Tuscan pilasters on plinths with recessed panels clasp angels. Tent roof, end stack. INTERIOR: moulded cornices to some rooms, that to left has deep acanthus frieze, that to right has grape frieze. Entrance hall ceiling is partitioned with moulded cornices and ceiling roses. Openwell staircase has ornate cast-iron balusters and wreathed handrail. 4-pane doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: Newbold Terrace was begun in 1828 but not completed for many years.

Forms an architectural group with No.27 (qv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3234265906