Numbers 10-32 And Attached Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NE HAMILTON TERRACE 1208-1/7/168 (South East side) 25/03/70 Nos.10-32 (Even) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 12 houses, now offices and attached railings. Numbered right to left, described left to right. Laid out and built 1833-1834. Mr Swain built some portion of it. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and mainly Welsh slate roofs, that to left has cement-tiles, with cast-iron railings and balconies. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys, 24 first-floor windows, of which bays 3-6, 11-14, and 19-22 project. Complete terrace with symmetrical, Neo-classical design. Ground floor has horizontal rustication. First floor: tall unequally-hung 1/1 sashes except to No.28 are 6/4 sashes, all within tooled architraves with frieze and cornice, except centre four windows with pediments. Second floor: 1/1 sashes except to No.28 are 6/6 sashes, all with tooled architraves and sills. Stepped cornice, low parapet with balusters to centre surmounted by 4 anthemions and pedimented to centre two bays. Ground floor: end entrances, otherwise in pairs all within porches (partly missing to No.32), the outer and central two bays with Tuscan pilasters, otherwise with round-arched openings; part-glazed doors, those in Tuscan porches with overlights with glazing bars, otherwise with fanlights mainly with decorative glazing. Tripartite 1/1 sashes except to No.28 a 6/6 between 4/4 sash and to No.10 a single 1/1 sash. Basements: plank doors and mainly 6/6 sashes, some 2/2 and 1/1 sashes and multi-pane casements. Ridge stacks. First floor has continuous balcony with double-rod motif on ornamental brackets, except to left dwelling are similar balconettes. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet area railings throughout. Nos 10-38 (even) form a group with No.2 (Grove House) Newbold Street and No.40 Holly Walk (qqv). (Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988): Glimpses of our Local Past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal Leamington Spa: 1895-: 141; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3195665770