Riverside And Attached Wall

The property is a villa with attached walls, constructed between 1833 and 1836. It was likely designed by John Mair of London for Mr Letts, Samuel Turner, and Thomas and RH Hootton of Sussex. The villa is built of pinkish-brown brick with a painted stucco facade and a Welsh slate roof, and is executed in a Neo-Tudor style.

The villa is two storeys with an attic and basement, featuring two first-floor windows. A gable end faces the street. The first floor has a band. Casement windows have eight panes, with pointed-arch glazing bars to the heads and margin-lights, set within chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. A central first-floor window is a single-pane casement with a pointed-arched overlight and margin-lights, within a pointed-arched, chamfered surround with a hoodmould that has foliate stops.

On the ground floor, an entrance is located to the right, featuring two steps leading to a pointed-arched opening with a chamfered surround and a hoodmould with face stops. The entrance is accessed via a four-panel door, partially glazed with etched glass and gothic tracery to the head. Two French windows with eight panes and overlights with pointed-arched glazing bars and margin-lights are also present. A continuous balcony is fitted with a four-centred-arched balustrade. The basement has a part-glazed, four-panel door and two four-over-eight-pane sashes. Decorative bargeboards adorn the gable ends, and end stacks are present. At the rear, several six-over-six-pane sashes are visible, with a tripartite window on the ground floor. A side entrance to the basement has a part-glazed door with twelve panes and margin-lights.

The interior features a dog-leg staircase with stick balusters and a wreathed handrail. The hall has a cornice with fleurons. Primarily, there are four-panel doors. Shutters are fitted to front ground-floor windows and to the basement. A plain marble chimneypiece is found in the front room, complemented by a frieze and cornice with a grape-and-leaf motif and an elliptically-arched recess to the rear wall.

Attached to the sides of the main building are embattled walls. These walls have four-centred-arched, chamfered openings; one is blocked, and one contains a plank door.

Deeds indicate that Mr Letts purchased the land in 1833. John Mair, Architect of London, was one of the signatories to the deeds. The property was sold in 1836 to Samuel Turner, then again that year to Thomas Hootton of Surrey, and subsequently in 1839 to RH Hootton. The villa is depicted in 'Panoramic View of Leamington from Newbold Terrace,' by Anne Gun Cunninghame, lithographed and printed by G Rowe of Cheltenham, circa 1840. Leam Terrace was laid out between approximately 1828 and 1836 and was largely built upon towards Willes Road by around 1841. The property forms an architectural group with numbers 9 and 13.