9-29 Waterloo Place - Warwick Street, Leamington Spa

Georgian buildings on or near Warwick Street in Leamington Spa.

 

Terrace of houses on Waterloo Place off Warwick Street.

 

No's 9-29 Waterloo Place all Grade II listed.

 

Numbers 9-29 and Attached Railings 9-29, Royal Leamington Spa - British Listed Buildings

 

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

 

SP3166SE WATERLOO PLACE

1208-1/2/411 (North side)

19/11/53 Nos.9-29 (Odd)

and attached railings

(Formerly Listed as:

WARWICK STREET

(North side)

Nos 9-29 (odd) Waterloo Place)

 

GV II

 

Terrace of houses, now offices. Numbered left to right.

c1829-1832 with later additions and alterations, including

rebuilding of c1970 to left. Pinkish-brown brick with painted

stucco facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings and

balustrade. Late Neo-Classical style.

PLAN: double-depth.

EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with attic and basement, 35 first-floor

windows arranged 3:3:3:3:3:3:2:3:3:3:3:3. End 3-window and

central 5-window bays project.

Stucco decoration includes rustication to ground floor and

basement. Centre and end projections have slender, fluted,

Corinthian pilasters between windows and to ends through first

and second floors, surmounted by continuous double frieze,

with moulded decoration to projections, and by continuous

dentil cornice, with acanthus modillions to projections.

Further pairs of plain pilasters to projections, with

continuous cornice and blocking course. First floor: 8-pane

French windows with divided overlights throughout.

Second floor: 6/6 sashes throughout, sills. Third floor: seven

3/6 sashes, blind opening, two 3/6 sashes, blind opening, two

3/6 sashes, blind opening, nine 3/6 sashes, six 6-pane

casements, three 3/6 sashes, 2-pane casement, blind opening,

2-pane casement.

Ground floor: entrance to No.9 to left return, 3 steps to

glazed door with cambered overlight within rusticated

surround, and porch with 2 fluted Ionic columns between 2

pillars and with round-arched windows to sides.

Entrances to Nos 11-27 are similar: 3 steps, mainly

roll-edged, to two 3-long-panel doors, the lower panels

roll-moulded; a part-glazed, 5-panel door; similar 3-panel

door; part-glazed 5-panel door; three part-glazed, 4-panel

doors; a part-glazed, 3-panel door with lion-knocker; all with

fanlights, mainly with radial glazing to heads except Nos 23 &

25 have stained glass, and all with fielded-panel reveals, the

lower panel roll-moulded. All within 2-columnar Ionic porches,

 

fluted to Nos 17 & 19 and all with engaged Doric pilasters;

double friezes with 3 wreaths to upper frieze, cornice.

Entrance to right return a panelled door in projecting solid

porch with end pilaster strip, cornice, low parapet with

sunken panel and with 6/6 sash with margin lights to side of

porch.

Windows: three 6/6 sashes with flat arches; four 6/6 sashes,

two 1/1 sashes and two 6/6 sashes all with rusticated flat

arches.

Central projection has 3 tripartite windows, the centres a 6/6

sash between 2/2 sashes, with cambered, rusticated arches. Six

6/6 sashes, two 1/1 sashes and three 6/9 sashes all with

rusticated flat arches, and with sills throughout.

Basement: from left, 4/8 sash, blocked door, 4/8 sash, 3/6

sash, 6/6 sash with rusticated flat arch, 3/6 sash, glazed

door, 6/8 sash, 3/6 sash, part-glazed door, 8/8 sash, 6/6

sash, glazed door, 6/8 sash, 8/8 sash glazed door, 6/6 sash,

8/8 sash with rusticated, flat arch, 4-panel door with divided

overlight, 8/8 sash, part-glazed door, 8/8 sash, part-glazed

door, boarded opening, 8/8 sash, 3/6 sash, 8/8 sash and board

door. Hipped roof, ridge stacks. Attics have roof dormers and

skylights partly-concealed behind low parapet.

First-floor continuous balustrade has

double-heart-and-anthemion motif which projects over porches

and continues around left return.

Railings and gates across front and to sides of steps are bars

with alternating anthemion and fleur-de-lys finials, with urn

finials to end-posts, except railings to right house (No.29)

are replacements. Boot scrapers to the upper steps mostly

remain.

Left return: 4 storeys with basement and attic, 3 first-floor

windows, central projection. Rustication to ground floor and

basement. Tall, fluted, Corinthian pilasters to ends rise

through first and second floors, dentil and acanthus modillion

cornice. To third floor at ends are pairs of plain pilasters.

First floor has tall 6/9 sashes. Second floor has 6/6 sashes,

sills. Third floor has 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals.

Ground floor has tripartite windows, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes.

Basement has tripartite sash, 4/4 between 2/2 sashes, and 4/8

sash with sills.

Right return: 4 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor windows.

Rusticated ground floor to front half; first floor has 4-pane

window with margin-lights, tooled surround and cornice; 6/6

sash; 8/8 sash. Second floor: sill band; blind opening, two

6/6 sashes. Third floor: blind opening, two 3/6 sashes.

Basement has 5/10 sash, panel door and 4/8 sash. To rear are

mainly 6/6 sashes.

INTERIOR: some entrance halls have archways with fluted Doric

 

pilasters, most have dogleg staircases with stick balusters

and wreathed handrails, moulded cornices to many rooms, mainly

with egg-and-dart motif and decorated friezes to first floor.

Some marble chimneypieces, to No.11, first floor, a Regency

marble chimneypiece with Arts and Crafts tiles. Shutters to

some windows.

SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and gates and railings to

sides of steps have alternating anthemion and fleur-de-lys

finials, with urn finials to stanchions; railings to right

(No.29) are replacements. Stick balusters to basement steps.

HISTORICAL NOTE: Waterloo Place was named in honour of the

Duke of Wellington who visited the Spa in 1827. The Countess

of Essex and Lady Hodson were among the first residents

terrace.

(Roth D: A Pocket Guide to Royal Leamington Spa: Warwick:

1978-: 19; Leamington Museum files; Cave LF: Royal Leamington

Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 40).

 

Offices to Let.

Done