Building for sale, Warwick Street west, Leamington
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Building for sale, Warwick Street west, Leamington
Image: © Robin Stott Taken: 2 Oct 2018
The site lies between Upper Grove Street (nearest the camera) and Warwick Terrace. The west end of the site, also for sale in 2015, is seen in Image I should be sorry to see this branch of Kwik Fit go. The upper floors are presumed to be offices. This part of Leamington was a frenzy of speculative residential development in the 1820s and 1830s but this site seems to have remained vacant until the 1840s. The Board of Health map of 1852 shows a villa, Westrock House, fronting Upper Grove Street with a split-level garden down to Warwick Terrace. So it remained until the 1960s when the site is shown vacant on an OS map of 1966-70. A building, presumed to be the present block, appears on the 1972-74 map.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.292053
Longitude
-1.541629