Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

1208-1/9/256 NEWBOLD TERRACE EAST
11-JUN-1973 (North side)
27

(Formerly listed as:
NEWBOLD TERRACE
27)

II

Villa, now training centre. Mid C19, with later additions and
alterations including later-C19 conservatory to south-west.
Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond with painted stucco facade
and Welsh slate roof.
PLAN: double-depth with central hall; 2 storeys, 4 first-floor
windows with service wing to rear.
EXTERIOR: entrance to right return. 3 roll-edged steps to
6-panel door with part-glazed side panels and with overlight
with glazing bars within 2-storey porch with Tuscan pilasters,
moulded round-arched head and central keystone; porch has
round-arched windows to sides.
Front facade: chamfered plinth, vermiculated quoins.
Rustication to ground floor. Outer canted bays to full height.
2/2 sashes to centres of canted bays, otherwise basket-arched
1/1 sashes, continuous impost band and central keystones.
Moulded first-floor band. Similar fenestration to first floor
with aprons and continuous impost band. Dentil and modillion
cornice, brick blocking course with moulded copings. End and
rear stacks. Glazed conservatory has 4-pane windows with
overlights with glazing bars.
Right return has tripartite window, tall 6/6 sash between 2/2
sashes under elliptical arch, otherwise 2/2 and 6/6 sashes,
all under elliptical arches.
INTERIOR: central hall has imperial staircase with
rod-on-bobbin balusters and newel posts, triple-arched recess
with stained and etched glass window above to mezzanine,
acanthus modillion cornice; 4-panel doors; several marble and
slate fireplaces; kitchen range by Flavel of Leamington. Front
left room has large, Jacobethan panelled inglenook fireplace.
Conservatory has Coalbrookdale tile floor.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Newbold Terrace was begun in 1828, but not
completed for many years.
Forms an architectural group with No.26 (qv)
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661511

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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair