Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/95 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.1 AND 1A
and attached railings

GV II

Villa, now 2 dwellings, and attached railings. c1825-1830 with
later additions and alterations. Builders, William Buddle Sr
and Jr of Nos 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill (qv). Brownish-red
brick with painted stucco facades, Welsh slate roof and
cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: main range of 3 storeys with basement, 3 first-floor
windows and to right a recessed single-storey range with 1
first-floor window. Garden facade has 2 storeys with attics
and basement, 2 full-height bows (4 first-floor windows).
Street facade, main range. Stucco detailing includes
channelling to ground floor, first floor sill band supports 2
outer pairs of Tuscan pilasters with single pilaster between
each window through first and second floors. Plinth. Central
entrance, 2 roll-edged steps to central entrance a 6-fielded
panel door with fanlight with decorative glazing, and with
fielded-panel reveals within porch of 2 engaged Doric
pilasters and 2 pairs of fluted Ionic columns, frieze,
cornice, blocking course. Windows: 2 x 6/6 sashes in tooled,
eared architraves. First floor has 6/6 sashes with tooled
architraves, that to centre with ears. Second floor has 3/6
sashes, tooled architraves, sills. Basement has 3/6 sashes,
sills. Low parapet. Side and roof stacks.
Range to right: ground floor has C20 garage doors, first floor
has 6/6 sash.
Garden facade: ground floor has tall 4/4 sashes, first floor
has 6/6 sashes, all with plain reveals. To left return a
round-arched staircase window, 6/9 sash with radial glazing to
head and margin-lights; 6/6 sash with margin-lights.
INTERIOR: original plasterwork remain including moulded
cornices to entrance hall, otherwise not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings have fleur-de-lys finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally planned as Bertie Circus, the
houses were constructed to face inwards with the present
garden facades as the main fronts. The Board of Health Map of
1852 indicates that Nos 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill (qv) was
included in that architectural scheme. When laid out c1825,
Clarendon Crescent was known as Back Lane, however DG
Squirhill's survey of 1838 shows it with its present name,
presumably by which time the scheme for a Circus had been

abandoned.
The original architectural scheme for Nos 1-9 (consecutive)
Clarendon Crescent (qqv) and Nos 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill (qv)
with its series of full-height bows is best seen from the rear
(or garden) facade.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39; Warwick County Record Office (an
archive teaching unit): The Rise of Leamington Spa: A Century
of Growth 1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3133866214

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661348

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