Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW NEWBOLD TERRACE
1208-1/9/254 (North West side)
19/11/53 Nos.23, 24 AND 25
and attached railings

GV II

Includes: No.24 Jephson Mansions and attached railings WILLES
ROAD.
Terrace of 4 houses, now flats and attached railings.
c1828-1840, with later additions and alterations including
extension to rear. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco
facade and Welsh slate roof with cast-iron porches and
verandahs.
EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with basement, 14 first-floor windows
arranged 5-3-3-3. Horizontal rustication to ground floor.
First floor, 5 tall 1/1 sashes with margin-lights and blind
boxes; 9 tall 6/9 sashes with Venetian blinds and blind boxes,
all windows in tooled architraves.
Second floor: five 1/1 sashes with margin-lights; three 6/6
sashes; three 6/4 sashes; three 6/1 sashes, all with tooled
architraves, sills and cornices.
Third floor, five 3/3 long-pane sashes, two casements,
otherwise 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals, with tooled
architraves and sills. Frieze, cornice, low parapet.
Ground floor, entrances below 8th and 11th windows and to
returns.
Main facade: 8 steps to part-glazed, panelled doors with
part-glazed side panels all under elliptical overlight with
glazing bars.
Central entrance to left return, 6 roll-edged steps to 8-panel
door with part-glazed side panels all under elliptical
overlight with glazing bars within projecting distyle Ionic
porch with Tuscan pilasters, frieze, dentil cornice.
To right return, 7 steps to part-glazed, 4-panel door between
sidelights all under blind elliptical overlight and rusticated
elliptical arch within porch with Tuscan pillars and
pilasters, plain frieze, cornice.
Windows: five 1/1 sashes with margin lights and blind boxes;
four 1/1 sashes; three 6/6 sashes with Venetian blind boxes
and blinds, all with sills.
Basements have mainly part-glazed doors with overlights with
glazing bars. Mainly 6/6 and 3/6 sashes.
Hipped roof, ridge stacks.
Ironwork: No.24 has wreath-and-lion-head knocker; No.25 has
porch with diamond-and-scroll pattern. First-floor verandah

has anthemion-and-circle motif to balustrade and double struts
to uprights.
Left return: horizontal rustication to ground floor; 1/1
sashes with margin-lights in tooled architraves and with
dentil pediments and aprons to 1st and 3rd floors, otherwise
3/3 sash and blind openings. Frieze, cornice.
Right return of 3 first-floor windows. Horizontal rustication,
blind openings to first floor; otherwise mainly 6/6 and 3/6
sashes, openings mainly with moulded architraves and sills;
those to first and second floors with cornices.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet area railings and gates have newel
posts with urn finials; to right return are pairs of stick
railings with anthemion and paterae between which abut porch.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Newbold Terrace was begun in 1828 but not
completed for many years.
No.23 Newbold Street was listed on 25.3.70.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3265NW WILLES ROAD
1208-1/9/254 (West side)
19/11/53 No.24
Jephson Mansions and attached
railings

GV II

See under: Nos.23, 24 AND 25 and attached railings NEWBOLD
TERRACE.

Listing NGR: SP3229365882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661508

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