Riverside And Attached Wall

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW LEAM TERRACE 1208-1/9/217 (North side) 25/03/70 No.11 Riverside and attached wall (Formerly Listed as: LEAM TERRACE (North side) Nos.9, 11 AND 13)

GV II

Villa with attached walls. 1833-1836. Possibly by John Mair of London, for Mr Letts, Samuel Turner and Thomas and RH Hootton of Sussex. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and Welsh slate roof. Neo-Tudor style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 2 first-floor windows. Gable end to street. First floor: band. 8-pane casements with pointed-arched glazing bars to heads and margin-lights, chamfered surrounds and hoodmoulds. Central window to gable a single-pane casement with pointed-arched overlight and margin-lights in pointed-arched, chamfered surround with hoodmould with foliate stops. Ground floor, entrance to right: 2 steps to pointed-arched opening with chamfered surround, hoodmould with face stops. Within a 4-panel, part-glazed door with etched glass and gothic tracery to head. Two 8-pane French windows with overlights with pointed-arched glazing bars and margin-lights. Continuous balcony with 4-centred-arched balustrade. Basement has part-glazed, 4-panel door and two 4/8 sashes. Decorative barge-boards to gable ends, end stacks. To rear are several 6/6 sashes, ground floor has tripartite window. Side entrance to basement a part-glazed door has 12 panes with margin-lights. INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase has stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Cornice with fleurons to hall. Mainly 4-panel doors. Shutters to front, ground-floor windows and to basement. Plain marble chimneypiece to front room, frieze and cornice with grape-and-leaf motif, elliptically-arched recess to rear wall. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to either side an embattled wall with 4-centre-arched, chamfered openings, one blocked, one with plank door. HISTORICAL NOTE: deeds to the house indicate Letts bought the land in 1833; John Mair, Architect of London was one of the signatories. In 1836 he sold an unfinished house to Samuel Turner who sold again that year to Thomas Hootton of Surrey. In 1839 he sold to RH Hootton. The house is shown on

'Panoramic View of Leamington from Newbold Terrace' by Anne Gun Cunninghame, lithographed and printed by G Rowe of Cheltenham, c1840. Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836 and almost completely built upon to Willes Road by c1841. Forms an architectural group with Nos 9 and 13 (qv). (Title deeds; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 30; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3220065518