Numbers 16 And 17 And Attached Walls

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LANSDOWNE CIRCUS 1208-1/4/209 (East side) 19/11/53 Nos.16 AND 17 and attached walls

GV II*

Pair of semi-detached villas. c1834-1838 with later alterations. Architect, William Thomas. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron verandah and porch. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic to gable, 6 first-floor windows of which the entrance bays to left and right are set back. First floor: to left and right a narrow, round-arched 2/2 sash, otherwise 6/6 sashes, in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances: steps to part-glazed, 3-panel doors. 10-pane French windows with margin-lights. Basement has multi-pane casement and two 3/3 sashes. Frieze; cornice and low parapet to left; copings to right. Central ridge and rear stacks. Porches have delicate scroll motif. Continuous verandah to centre, ground floor has anthemion and paterae to uprights and double-rod-and-anthemion motif balustrade. INTERIOR: No.17: shutters to some windows; Regency fireplaces; staircase with wreathed handrail and rod-with-central-bobbin balusters. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen walls to left and right, that to left abutting No.15 (qv). HISTORICAL NOTE: a map of 1834 shows Lansdowne Circus and Crescent laid out for 'intended buildings'. Lansdowne Circus is an almost complete layout of practically identical villas. Nos 1-17 (consecutive), Lansdowne Circus form an architectural group with Victoria House and Nos 19-57 (odd) Lansdowne Crescent (qqv), all by William Thomas. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39, 57).

Listing NGR: SP3233866132