Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/97 (West side)
25/03/70 No.3
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENDON CRESCENT
(West side)
Nos.3 AND 4)

GV II

Villa. c1825-1830 with later additions and alterations.
Builders, William Buddle Sr and Jr of Nos 19 & 21 Beauchamp
Hill (qv). Brownish-red brick with painted stucco front and
garden facades, Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic to gable, 3
first-floor window range; single-storey, narrow lean-to to
right.
Garden facade has 2 storeys with basement and attics, 2
full-height bows (4 first-floor windows).
Street facade, entrance to left has 4 roll-edged steps to
5-panel door in moulded surround within Doric porch of 2 outer
pilasters and 2 columns, frieze, cornice, blocking course. Two
6/6 sashes in tooled surrounds. First floor: rectangular bay
with 6/6 sash to centre and sides of 2/2 sashes. Otherwise two
6/6 sashes, tooled surrounds, sills. Cornice above bay window,
gable above other 2 windows with attic window a 3/6 sash,
tooled architrave. Basement has part-glazed door and
multi-pane casement with elliptical arch.
Garden facade: ground floor has 10-pane French windows,
first-floor has 6/6 sashes in plain reveals, with sills.
Frieze, cornice, blocking course. Side stack.
INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with tapering-rod-on-bobbin
balusters and wreathed handrail. Moulded cornices.
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 & 17
Beauchamp Hill 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 & 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: SP3136366235

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661350

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