56 And 58, Brandon Parade

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW BRANDON PARADE 1208-1/9/69 (South side) 25/03/70 Nos.56 AND 58

GV II

Pair of houses, now offices. Numbered right to left. c1843, with later additions and alterations. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof. Neo-Tudor style. H-shaped on plan. Recessed centre with projecting, gabled wings and further recessed ranges to ends. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attics to gable and to rear, 6 first-floor windows arranged 1:1:2:1:1. Chamfered plinth. Entrances to side ranges in projecting embattled porches: 2 steps to long-panelled, 4-centred doors in moulded surrounds with hoodmould; stepped octagonal embattled column and half-column to sides with moulded surround with hoodmould. Projecting wings have canted bays to two storeys; to centre, single-storey, rectangular bays, all with cavetto-moulded wooden mullion and transom windows with casements in chamfered surrounds, otherwise similar 3-light mullion and transom window and lancet windows with chamfered surrounds, hoodmould and floral stops. Centre bays have moulded, chamfered angles. Cavetto-moulded cornice. To each bay a decorative frieze and further cavetto-moulded cornice. To end ranges and centre a decorative blocking course and plain blocking course to centre. Attics to gable. Fish-scale tiles to left. 4 tall octagonal stacks and 2 tall roof stacks with chamfered angles, 6 similar stacks to rear. Rear has 2- and 3-light mullion and transom windows, mainly with cambered arches. INTERIOR: some moulded ceilings. Two open-newel staircases with rod-on-bobbin balusters and barleytwist newel posts. HISTORICAL NOTE: Brandon Parade was laid out c1833, but is not shown as built until after 1843. (Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3220065964