Arnold Lodge

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE 1208-1/3/55 (North side) 25/03/70 Nos.31 AND 33 Arnold Lodge (Formerly Listed as: BINSWOOD AVENUE Nos.31 AND 33 Leamington College)

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now school. c1834, with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron verandah. EXTERIOR: 2 and 3 storeys with basement, 7 first-floor windows of which 2 windows to left are in 2 storeys and 1st bay to left is recessed with added greenhouse to ground floor. First floor: 2/2 sashes throughout in eared and moulded surrounds and with sills. Cornice, frieze, cornice. Second floor: 2/2 fixed light windows in similar surrounds. Ground floor: 4 steps to entrances below 2nd and 7th windows are part-glazed, fielded-panel doors with fanlights (blocked to left) within doorcases of Tuscan pilasters, frieze and cornice. Greenhouse has casement windows, otherwise 4-pane French windows with overlights. Basement has casement windows. Blocking course surmounted by 5 urns. Verandah to right, ground floor has 2-rod-and-anthemion motif balustrade. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Binswood Avenue was laid out c1828 and houses to the west were completed by 1834. Nos 31-45 (odd) Binswood Avenue (qqv) constitute an architectural group together with No.13, Kenilworth Road (qv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3168466585