The Mill Street Chapel was started in 1829 by a group of Nonconformists who had broken away from the Union Chapel, Clemens Street, and who needed a home where they could continue to use part of the Liturgy of the Church of England, an issue which led some Nonconformist ministers to join the Anglican Church. The … Read more
Marlborough Hotel started life in the 1850s as a private Regency house, Elmley Lodge, in Brandon Parade, designed by builder, Benjamin Bradshaw. It was No 4 Brandon Parade and later No 48 Holly Walk. The house was to provide the future home for distinguished nobility and clergy in the 19th century and then developed as a Boarding … Read more
The Manor House lies at the centre of the old Lillington village, a short distance from the parish church of St Mary Magdalene, and the site of three village farms. It is thought to have been built in its present form in about 1700, though internal inspection reveals clues to an earlier building on the same … Read more
Built as the Wise family home in the Queen Anne style in about 1740 with a handsome Chippendale staircase and two dovecotes at the foot of a three-acre garden, the Manor House subsequently saw many alterations and adaptations. When Matthew Wise married, he built Shrubland Hall on the outskirts of the town, leaving the Manor House to become … Read more
Manor Farm was the largest of the three Lillington village farms, extending over 230 acres to the Cubbington boundary. At the turn of the 19th century, all three farms were owned by local landowner Matthew Wise, whose family had owned the land since it was divided into fields almost a hundred years before at the … Read more
There is a substantial building with a certain ‘presence’ on the east side of Kenilworth Street which is now the home of many retired people. At its heart is a Victorian building enlivened with patterns of different colours of bricks. Many will recall that in the 1960s part of it was the home of Griffin and … Read more
Harrington House was designed by Edward Welby Pugin (1834-1875), son of A W N Pugin, and famous in his own right for designing over 100 Catholic Churches at home and abroad, despite dying young at 41. It was built in 1869 at the north-west corner of Newbold Street and Newbold Terrace on land bought by local builder and … Read more
The Story of the House and a notable resident. Hamilton Terrace (called Hamilton Crescent until 1848) overlooks the broad avenue of Regent Grove (Holly Walk). The dwellings were built behind a carriage drive in 1833-1834. These are now mainly offices but functioned in early days as boarding houses or furnished lodgings for those visiting the spa … Read more
The address of this pub was originally in Cross Street, which was later named Regent Street in honour of the Prince Regent. The Golden Lion was one of the first buildings to be built north of the river Leam as part of the “new town” in 1810 and it was one of the few places where accommodation … Read more
It has been suggested that the earliest evidence of a Gas Works in Leamington was 1819, although other sources imply that it could even be some four years before that. T B Dudley in 1901 claimed that there were works “on the site of the present works, erected by Mr Roberts, of the Warwick Foundry, probably … Read more
In 1860 John Gardiner sent plans to the local board to build a large house on the corner of Upper Holly Walk and Newbold Road (now Willes Road). The plans were eventually approved and the large house was built in a Classical style. It demonstrates the long period within which houses were built in the street; some on … Read more
As there was no provision for Methodists in Leamington in the early 1800s, worshippers travelled to Warwick, or further afield to Coventry. A London barber, William Scott, set up a place of worship for Methodists in Barnacle’s Yard, Satchwell Street in 1817. Two years later, with a congregation of just nine, a large room in Brunswick … Read more
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