The Royal Hotel And Attached Railings

The Royal Hotel and attached railings, located on Kenilworth Road in Royal Leamington Spa, comprises two houses converted to a hotel with later additions and alterations. Built between approximately 1822 and 1834, the building is constructed of pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco and a Welsh slate roof, featuring cast-iron railings and a balcony.

The main range stands four storeys with attics and a basement. The right section of the principal elevation projects and comprises three windows; through the first and second floors are fluted Composite pilasters at the ends and between windows. The first floor contains three 9/9 sashes and three tall 9/6 sashes in plain reveals, with blind boxes to the left three windows and sills to the right three. The second floor has 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with sills. A continuous band, frieze, and cornice run across the left three-window range, while the right three-window range has a modillion cornice at its angles. The third floor of the right three-window range has plain pilasters at the ends and between windows, with 3/6 sashes throughout in plain reveals and with sills, beneath a cornice and low parapet.

At ground floor level, the two original houses have separate entrances to the right, accessed by seven and eight roll-edged steps respectively. Each entrance has a four-panel door with blind fanlight in a tooled surround with fielded pilasters and mask-keystones. The ground floor also features 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with sills, fitted with Venetian blinds and blind boxes. Four dormer windows with casements light the attics, while the basement contains a plank door, part-glazed door, 6/6 sashes, and two 2/2 sashes.

To the left extends a single-storey range with basement, comprising three bays. This features a central wide bay between narrower bays, with pilaster strips between and at the ends. Four 1/2 sashes light the centre and one each to the sides, all in plain reveals with sills. Recessed panels sit above each window. The range has a cornice, blocking course with central recessed panel and matching pilaster strips, and copings. The roof to the main range is half-hipped to the right, with a hipped roof over the left range. Tall end stacks and a central stack to the main range all feature cornices. A continuous first-floor balcony with decorative scrolled uprights runs across the front elevation.

The right return has a first-floor band surmounted by end pilasters rising through the first and second floors. Openings to the left on all floors are blind; the first floor otherwise has 6/6 and 9/9 sashes, the second floor has 6/6 sashes with sills, the third floor has 3/3 sashes, and the ground floor has two 6/6 sashes.

A rear range of two low storeys with blind openings—two to each floor—was added later.

The area railings and those to the sides of the steps have spear-head finials.

This building was formerly known as Beauchamp Square, originally Newbold Square. It was laid out between 1822 and 1825 by PF Robinson, architect of Mayfair, with Kenilworth Road laid out circa 1834 to 1838. Late nineteenth-century additions and alterations are evident, particularly the range to the left.

The interior was not inspected at the time of listing.