62 Leam Terrace

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ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA LEAM TERRACE (South side) No.62

(Formerly Listed as: LEAM TERRACE (South side) Nos.56-66 (Even))

25/03/70

GV II

Villa. c1834-1838, with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco front facade and concealed roof.

EXTERIOR: two storeys, three first-floor windows.

First floor: band surmounted by four Tuscan pilasters to ends and between windows; 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and moulded surrounds. Double frieze, cornice, blocking course. Ground floor, plinth, horizontal rustication.

Central entrance: four roll-edged steps to four-panel door between pilaster strips and sidelights with glazing-bars, with elliptical overlight with decorative glazing, in plain reveals and elliptically-arched surround, within distyle Tuscan porch with engaged pilasters, entablature and blocking course. To left a 1/1 sash, to right a canted bay with three 1/1 sashes.

End stacks, tall to left with cornice, otherwise truncated.

INTERIOR: not inspected.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Leam Terrace was laid out c1828-1836, both sides as far as Willes Road were almost completely built by 1841.

Nos 54-66 (even) (qv) with No.2 Farley Street (qv) form an architectural group of villas.

(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 30; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A: Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 338).

Listing NGR: SP3245665517