Numbers 4 And 5 And Attached Walls

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3266SW LANSDOWNE CIRCUS 1208-1/4/203 (West side) 19/11/53 Nos.4 AND 5 and attached walls

GV II*

Pair of semi-detached villas and attached walls. c1834-1838 with later alterations. Architect, William Thomas. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facade and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron porches and verandahs. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attics to gables, 6 first-floor windows, of which the entrance bays to left and right are set back. First floor: 1st and 6th windows are narrow, round-arched 2/2 sashes, otherwise 6/6 sashes, in plain reveals and with sills. Entrances: 7 steps to 3-panel doors. 10-pane French windows with margin-lights. Basement has plate-glass, and casement windows with margin-lights. Frieze, cornice, low parapet; central ridge and rear stacks. Porches have delicate scroll motif; continuous verandah to ground floor has heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade with scrolls to uprights. INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: screen walls abut No.3 (qv) to left and No.6 (qv) to right with entrances to gardens. HISTORICAL NOTE: a map of 1834 shows Lansdowne Circus and Crescent laid out for 'intended building'. 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: SP3227266155