Numbers 21 And 23 With Attached Walls And Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE 1208-1/9/222 (North side) 25/03/70 Nos.21 AND 23 with attached walls and railings (Formerly Listed as: LEAM TERRACE (North side) Nos.17-23 (Odd))

GV II

Pair of semi-detached villas, now house and rest home and attached wall and railings. c1834-1838 with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings. Neo-Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic to gables and basement, 4 first-floor windows, 2 to each house, outer bays project and are gabled. First floor: band; outer bays have 2/2 sashes, otherwise 1/1 sashes, all with chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds, blind boxes to left 2 windows. Attics to gable: central window a 6-pane casement with pointed-arched overlight in chamfered, pointed-arched surround and with hoodmould with male and female headstops. Further 6-pane casement to each with plain reveals. To centre of upper storey a blind arcade, above that a corbel table and above again a blind arcade. Ground floor: castellated pair of central porches have 5 roll-edged steps to pointed-arched openings with roll-moulded surrounds. Within are part-glazed doors with Gothic tracery to heads of upper panels and pointed-arched overlights with stained glass and Gothic glazing-bars. Outer bays have unequally-hung, tall 1/1 sash to left and 6/9 sash to right, both with verandahs with 4-centred-arched balustrade, posts and cusped frieze. Basement: alike, concealed entrances below steps, 8/8 sashes. Gables have finials to centre and sides. End stacks. Rear: 8/8 sashes. INTERIOR of No.23: shutters to several rooms. Entrance hall has cornice with fleurons, sitting room has cornice with foliage. Dogleg staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Mainly 4-panel doors. Coal cellars under driveway. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: decorative lancet railings across front and to sides of steps. To right a castellated wall with pointed-arched, chamfered openings. Similar wall and opening to left, but with battlements partly removed adjoins No.19 (qv).

HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836 and both sides to Willes Road were almost completely built by 1841. (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: SP3226065532