The Shakespeare Inn

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW CHURCH TERRACE 1208-1/12/89 (South side) 25/03/70 No.8 The Shakespeare Inn

GV II

Includes: No.2 The Shakespeare Inn GEORGE STREET. Formerly 3 dwellings, now public house. c1818-1834 with later additions and alterations including mid-C20 extension to rear. Reddish-brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stucco to front and side facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron dressings. PLAN: L-shaped, the building occupies a corner site with chamfered, recessed angle. EXTERIOR: main block of 3 storeys, 5 first-floor windows, with block to left of 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows and block to right of 2 storeys, 1 first-floor window, 8 first-floor openings, arranged (from left): 2-1-1 (to angle) -3-1. Plinth. Entrance to angle, 2 steps, the lower roll-edged, to double, 6-panel door with fanlight with glazing bars and moulded, round-arched cornice. Further entrance to left (below second first-floor window): 2 steps to part-panelled, part-glazed door, overlight with glazing bars, plain reveals and pilastered surround, frieze and cornice. Another entrance to right (beneath 6th first-floor window) a part-glazed door with roll-moulded lower panel, overlight with decorative glazing and reeded doorcase. Further entrance to far right, 3 steps, the lower 2 roll-edged to 6-panel door, 8-pane overlight. Ground floor windows: from left, 12/12 sash with sill and plain reveals; C20 multi-pane bow window; 12/12 sash, 6/6 sash and small 6/6 sash, all with plain reveals and sills. First floor, from left: 2 blind openings with plain reveals, tooled surrounds and sills, 12-pane French window with margin lights; 6/6 sash (to angle), blind opening, 6/6 sash, blind opening, 3/6 sash, all with sills and plain reveals. Second floor: 8-pane casement with margin lights, 3/6 sash (to angle), 2 blind openings, 3/6 sash, all with plain reveals and sills. Cornice, blocking course, copings, with low parapet to left. Wide side stack to 3-storey block has brickwork arranged in semi-circle. Further end stacks. Cast-iron lamp bracket above door to angle, balcony to French window has circle-and-elongated-figure-of-eight motif balustrade on decorative brackets.

INTERIOR: dog-leg staircase to far right range has stick balusters and turned end post. Some 6-panel doors. Cellars. HISTORICAL NOTE: Church Terrace was a village lane in 1818, widened and given its present name by 1834. (Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW GEORGE STREET 1208-1/12/89 (West side) 25/03/70 No.2 The Shakespeare Inn

GV II

See under: No.8 The Shakespeare Inn CHURCH TERRACE.

Listing NGR: SP3211265399