92 AND 92A, PARADE (See details for further address information)

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE PARADE 1208-1/7/275 (West side) 19/11/53 Nos.92 AND 92A

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Includes: No.81 REGENT STREET. Houses, now shop with flats and storage over. c1810-1818 with later additions and alterations including probable stuccoing c1835-1860, and mid-C20 ground floor with shop front and attic dormers. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows. Ground floor has remains of horizontal rustication to ends, cornice surmounted by giant Egypto-Corinthian pilasters through first and second floors, double frieze, cornice, blocking course, copings. First floor has 6/1 sashes with moulded surrounds and cornices. Second floor has 3/3 sashes with eared and moulded surrounds, sills with feet. All windows in plain reveals. End stack. Similar facade to left return: 2 first-floor windows. Facade projects and has similar tall pilasters to ends with a pair between windows. Similar fenestration. INTERIOR: remains of egg-and-dart cornice to first floor, but interior walls removed. HISTORICAL NOTE: the Parade was so-named in 1860. Originally Lillington Lane, it was renamed Union Row c1809. The lower section was laid out c1810-1814 and the original buildings were brick fronted. Built as houses, hotels and lodging-houses, by 1850 many had become shops. Forms an architectural group with Nos 63-79 (odd) Regent Street (qv). No.92A was listed on 25.3.70. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 33, 36-38; Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 38).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE REGENT STREET 1208-1/7/275 (North side) 19/11/53 No.81

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See under: Nos.92 AND 92A PARADE.

Listing NGR: SP3176265914