4 And 6, Church Terrace

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW CHURCH TERRACE 1208-1/12/88 (South side) 25/03/70 Nos.4 AND 6

GV II

Two houses. Numbered right to left, described left to right. c1818-1834 with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick in English bond with painted stucco to front facade, slate roof to No.4 and cement-tiles to No.6, and cast-iron dressings. PLAN: L-shaped. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows arranged 1:3; basement to left. Stucco detailing includes horizontal rustication to ground floor surmounted by Tuscan pilasters with sunk panels to each end and between windows through first and second floors. First floor: 10-pane French windows with margin-lights throughout, replacements to right; second floor has 3/6 sashes throughout, all in plain reveals. Ground floor: entrances below first and third first-floor windows, (alike) 3 steps to 3-panelled door, the lower panel roll-moulded, overlight (with glazing bars to right), plain reveals within distyle Doric porches with frieze, cornice, blocking course. Basement has casement window. Frieze, cornice and blocking course with copings. Ridge and side stacks. Continuous balcony across first floor with Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif, with some replacement stick balusters to left. Rear, to left are two 3/6 sashes. INTERIOR, right (No.4): entrance hall has dentil and modillion cornice with decorative arch into stairwell, narrow-openwell staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail, 6-panel doors. First floor has moulded cornices, doorcase with cornice to front, first-floor room, C19 fireplace. 6-panel doors. HISTORICAL NOTE: Church Terrace was a village lane in 1818, widened and given its present name by 1834. (Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3209865396