Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265SW HIGH STREET
1208-1/12/175 (South side)
19/11/53 No.54
Former Town Hall

II

Town hall, then police station, now club. Built 1830-31 with
later additions and alterations. Brick with painted stucco
facades and Welsh slate roof. Symmetrical Classical design.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 3-first-floor
windows to centre with projecting, single-window ranges joined
by distyle fluted Ionic portico in antis. Horizontal
rustication to right floor, basement.
Flight of 10 steps to central entrance, 4-panel double doors
with overlight in tooled surround with cornice on corbels.
To left a further entrance a 4-panel door inserted to left in
taller, wider surround with plain reveals. To right a blind
window.
First floor has outer blind windows and central 3/1 sash.
Wings have 6/6 sashes to ground floor and 3/1 and 3/3 sashes
to first floor. All windows with sills and in plain reveals.
Basement has 10/10 sashes to wings.
Continuous frieze, moulded cornice-parapet. Roof dormer to
attic, partly concealed. Hipped roof. End and ridge stacks
with cornices.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: foundation stone laid 24 June 1830, the Town
Hall was used for the first time on 27 June 1831. High Street,
first known as Warwick Row, was laid out 1810-1813 and formed
part of the former High Road from Warwick to London.
(Manning JC (Facsimile by Warwickshire County Library 1988):
Glimpses of our local past .. Royal Leamington Spa: Royal
Leamington Spa: 1895-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its
History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 27-28; Dept of the
Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-;
The Buildings of England: Pevsner N and Wedgwood A:
Warwickshire: Harmondsworth: 1966-1990: 335).

Listing NGR: SP3216865169

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661430

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House