Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON SQUARE
1208-1/1/114 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.18, 19 AND 20
Arden House and attached railings

GV II

3 houses, now residential home and attached railings.
c1828-1832, with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh
slate roof with cast-iron railings and verandah.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and attics to gables, 7
first-floor windows of which the centre 3 project; 2-storey,
single entrance bay recessed to sides.
First floor has 10-pane French windows in tooled, eared
architraves throughout. Second floor: 6/6 sashes in similar
architraves with horns. Modillion cornice, blocking course
rises to central upshot with indented plaque with anthemion
frieze; cornice to centre, copings to sides.
Ground floor: central and end entrances; central entrance, 3
steps to part-glazed, 4-panel door with margin-lights with
elliptical overlight with gothic glazing, within distyle Doric
porch with engaged pilasters, frieze, dentil cornice and
blocking course.
Side entrances, 3-panel door to left and 4-panel, part-glazed
door to right behind Doric screens which abut No.17 (qv) to
left and No.21 (qv) to right. Otherwise four 6/6 and two 2/2
sashes with eared architraves and sills with horns and
inserted entrances. Basement has 3/6 and casement windows.
Roof stacks. First floor has verandah with heart-and-anthemion
motif and tent roof.
INTERIOR: central entrance hall with modillion cornice and
arch to rear hall. Reception rooms have decorative cornices.
Staircase to right side has turned balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps and to area
have anthemion finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces laid out
c1828 to the plans of PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street,
Mayfair. The houses were completed c1832, the gardens in the
Square were planted with trees in May 1830.
Nos 11-21 (consec) form an architectural set piece of fine
buildings.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 55; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3143666310

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661367

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Recommended Books

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)