Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/100 (West side)
25/03/70 No.6
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENDON CRESCENT
(West side)
Nos.5 AND 6)

GV II

Villa and attached railings. c1825-1830 with later additions
and alterations. Builders, William Buddle Sr and Jr of Nos 19
& 21, Beauchamp Hill (qv). Pinkish-brown brick with painted
stucco facade to front and garden, Welsh slate roof and
cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, gabled to right, with basement and attic
to gable, 3 first-floor windows.
Garden front has 2 storeys with basement and attics, 2 bows to
full height (4 first-floor windows).
Street facade, entrance to left in projecting porch, a 4-panel
door with side-lights with glazing bars all under
elliptically-arched overlight. Porch has end pillars and pair
of fluted Doric columns supporting frieze and pedimented
gable.
Windows: to centre a tripartite window, 6/6 between 2/2
sashes; 3/3 sash. First floor has three 6/6 sashes. Attic has
3/6 sash. All windows in plain reveals, tooled surrounds and
with sills. Basement has 8/8 and 3/6 sash. Gable has plain
barge boards and copings. End, central and roof stacks.
Garage to right with C20 door has oculus to gable with central
keystone. Pedimented gable and clock to roof ridge with peaked
roof.
Garden facade has 10-pane French windows to ground floor and
6/6 sashes to first floor. Frieze, cornice, low parapet, roof
dormers. Roof hipped to garden front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet area railings to right.
HISTORICAL NOTE: William Louis de Normanville, Borough
Engineer and Surveyor of Leamington (1882-1917) lived here.
Originally known 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 (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 & 17 Beauchamp Hill (qv)
with its series of full-height bows is best seen from the rear
(or garden) facade.
(Storrie J: William Louis de Normanville. Engineer, Architect
and Inventor: Royal Leamington Spa: 13; 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: SP3137466280

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661353

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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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