Quinton Lodge

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE BINSWOOD AVENUE 1208-1/3/59 (South side) 25/03/70 No.50 Quinton Lodge

GV II

Includes: No.8 KENILWORTH ROAD. Villa, now house and office. c1834, with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco to all facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron verandah with lead roof. EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys with basement, attic to right, 3 first-floor windows, with recessed 2-storey range with basement and 1 first-floor window to left, and recessed, 2-stepped-storey blind bay to right. Full-height Doric pilasters clasp angles of main range. First-floor band. Pilaster strips between windows to main range. Steps to entrance to left side range a glazed door with overlight in tooled surround, otherwise 6/6 sashes throughout, taller to ground floor in moulded architraves. Basement has two 8/8 sashes with multi-pane casements and glazed door. Main range has frieze, cornice, blocking course and copings; end stack. Right return of 2 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows, with projection to left. Full-height Tuscan pilasters clasp angles. Central entrance: 7 roll-edged steps to part-glazed panelled double-doors, overlight with glazing-bars in porch with Tuscan pillars, frieze, blocking course. To right a 1/1 sash with blind box. First floor, central 6/6 sash with blind box, otherwise blind openings, all with moulded architraves and sills. First-floor band. Frieze, cornice, blocking course, copings. Central 'pediment' contains 3/3 sash with moulded architrave. Garden facade, ground floor: French window of 10-pane centre between 5-pane side-lights. 8-pane casement; otherwise six 6/6 sashes all with blind boxes and 3/6 sash. French window has verandah with double-scroll-and-circle motif to uprights. INTERIOR: shutters to ground floor; egg-and-dart moulded cornice to rear room; 4-panel doors with Regency surrounds; staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. HISTORICAL NOTE: Binswood Avenue was laid out c1828-1833, those houses to the west were completed by 1834. Nos 50-60 (even) Binswood Avenue (qqv) together with No.3 Arlington Avenue (qv) constitute an architectural group. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:

Chichester: 1988-: 39; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166NE KENILWORTH ROAD 1208-1/3/59 (East side) 25/03/70 No.8

GV II

See under: No.50 Quinton Lodge BINSWOOD AVENUE.

Listing NGR: SP3180266518