Beauchamp Lodge And Attached Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE BEAUCHAMP AVENUE 1208-1/2/29 (North side) 25/03/70 No.27 Beauchamp Lodge and attached railings (Formerly Listed as: BEAUCHAMP AVENUE (North side) Nos.27-33 (Odd))

GV II

Villa and attached railings. c1828-1838 with later alterations. Probably by William Thomas. Brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron verandah and railings. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 bays, the outer bays are canted to full height, with basement and attics to gables and 2-storey entrance bay recessed to right. First floor: moulded band; 1/1 sashes throughout, narrower to sides of bays, all with horns and in plain reveals with tooled architraves and sills. Cornice on consoles. Parapet with balusters. Ground floor: canted bays have tall 1/1 sashes with horns, narrower to sides. To centre, 6 roll-edged steps to 4-pane French windows with divided overlights. Entrance to bay to right: 5 roll-edged steps to 8 fielded-panel door with cambered overlight in moulded architrave, set behind distyle fluted Doric screen which adjoins No.29 Beauchamp Avenue (qv). Tall paired end stacks. Concealed basement to front, 3/3 sashes to left return. Left return has 6/6 sashes. Verandah to ground floor, centre has double-rod-with-anthemion-and-paterae to uprights and frieze. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have double-rod-and-paterae motif. HISTORICAL NOTE: Beauchamp Avenue was laid out c1828-31, most houses on the north side were built by 1838. Occupies a corner site and forms an architectural group with Nos 29, 31 and 33 Beauchamp Avenue (qqv). (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 57; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3180266448