Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/102 (West side)
25/03/70 No.8
and attached railings
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENDON CRESCENT
(West side)
Nos.8 AND 9)

GV II

Villa and attached railings. c1825-1830 with later additions
and alterations including C20 lean-to and garage to right.
Builders, William Buddle, Sr and Jr of Nos 19 and 21,
Beauchamp Hill (qv), for J Woolison. Brick with painted stucco
facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement and attic to gable, 2
first-floor windows, extension to left has projecting
single-storey porch.
Garden facade has 2 storeys with basement and attics, 2 bows
to full height (4 first-floor windows).
Street facade, entrance to porch has 4-panel door, architrave
of pilaster strips and side-lights with glazing bars. Porch
has plain pillars in antis and 2 fluted Doric columns, frieze
with triglyphs and metopes, cornice, blocking course. Ground
floor has three 1/1 sashes with margin-lights. First floor has
two 6/6 sashes with margin-lights. Second-floor band. To gable
a casement window. All windows have moulded surrounds, plain
reveals and sills. Basement has central entrance, a 6-panel
door. Windows: 4/8 and 3/3 sashes, in plain reveals and with
sills. Copings to gable. Stacks to apex and to end.
Garden facade has 2/2 sashes with margin-lights to first
floor, frieze, cornice, blocking course, low parapet. Roof
dormers. Roof hipped to garden front.
INTERIOR: inner hall has double panelled doors, the upper
panel glazed with etched glass, pilaster strips and side
lights, all under fanlight with glazing bars.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet railings.
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 (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 & 17 Beauchamp Hill (qv) with its
series of full-height bows is best seen from the rear (or
garden) facade.
(Deeds to No.9 Clarendon Crescent; 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: SP3136666310

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661355

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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Churches: An Architectural Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)