20, Regent Street

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE REGENT STREET 1208-1/7/341 (South side) 18/08/80 No.20

GV II

House, now shop with storage over. c1814-1836 with later additions and alterations including shop front. Reddish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and cast-iron balcony. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with attic, 3 first-floor windows. First floor: blind opening and two 6/6 sashes; second floor, blind opening and two 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals. Cornice, low parapet. Ground floor: plinth, central entrance a part-glazed door with basket-arched overlight with panelled reveals and frieze. To left a double entrance, part-glazed doors, now blocked, with overlight with glazing bars. Seven tall basket-arched windows, frieze, dentil cornice. Left facade: first floor has 8-pane French window with margin-lights and divided overlight; second floor has 3/6 sash. Ground floor has projecting shop front with irregular glazing. Half-hipped roof, right end stack. To left facade, first floor a balcony with oval motif. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Regent Street, first known as Cross Street, was laid out c1808-1814. The first houses in a terrace development date from 1814. Occupies a corner site with Portland Street and forms an architectural group with No.18 Regent Street and Nos 22-38 (even) Portland Street (qqv). (Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past.. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 140).

Listing NGR: SP3153165875