60, Brandon Parade

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW BRANDON PARADE 1208-1/9/70 (South side) 25/03/70 No.60

GV II

Villa, now offices. c1843, with later additions and alterations including late-C20 range to rear. Probably by James Morgan. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron porch. T-shaped on plan. EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with recessed 2-storey, 1 first-floor window entrance range to right. Main range, horizontal rustication to ground floor. First-floor band surmounted by pairs of Ionic pilasters to ends and between windows. First floor: 6/6 sashes with plain reveals and moulded sills. Ground floor: moulded plinth interrupted by tall 4/4 sashes with sidelights, roll-edged sills in stepped reveals. Frieze, moulded cornice, blocking course. Side range, first floor: small 6/6 sash with radial glazing to head and tooled surround, sill. Blocking course. Entrance: 3 roll-edged steps to 4-fielded-panel door with overlight in tooled surround. Porch has anthemion and paterae motifs and tent roof. INTERIOR: 3 marble fireplaces to ground and first floor. Decorative cornices to some rooms. Shutters to some rooms. 4-panel doors. Dogleg staircase with cast-iron balustrade of paired sticks with central paterae, wreathed handrail. HISTORICAL NOTE: Brandon Parade was laid out c1833, but is not shown as built until after 1843. Formerly part of the grounds of Newbold Comyn, owned by Revd Edward Willes who commissioned PF Robinson, John Nash and James Morgan during the 1820s to produce designs for the development of his estate. (Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39; Warwick County Record Office: The Rise of Leamington Spa, A Century of Growth 1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3222965973