Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/101 (West side)
25/03/70 No.7

GV II

Villa. c1825-1830 with later additions and alterations,
including C20 lean-to to right. Builders, William Buddle Sr
and Jr of Nos 19 & 21, Beauchamp Hill (qv), for Luke Dackus.
Pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond, painted to street facade,
stuccoed and painted to left and to garden facades, Welsh
slate roof. Gabled end to street.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic to gable, 2
first-floor windows. Entrance to left return a 4-panel door
with side-lights all under segmental divided overlight.
Windows: ground floor has 1/1 sash with margin-lights; 6/6
sash. First floor has two 6/6 sashes. Attic has 3/6 sash.
Basement has central entrance a plank door, to left a
tripartite sash: 3/6 between 1/2 sashes, to right an 8/8 sash.
All windows in plain reveals, with sills and elliptical
arches. Garden facade, first floor has 1/1 sashes, frieze,
cornice, low parapet, roof dormers. Roof hipped to garden
front.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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 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; Deeds to No.9 Clarendon Crescent;
Warwick County Record Office (an archive teaching unit): The
Rise of Leamington Spa: A Century of Growth 1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3136966296

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661354

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