Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON PLACE
1208-1/1/108 (West side)
19/11/53 Bethany Christadelphian Home
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENDON PLACE
(West side)
York House)

GV II

House, now residential home. 1836-1837 with later additions
and alterations. By William Startin. Pinkish-brown brick with
painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement, 4 first-floor windows, bay
to left is recessed and slightly angled. Plinth, surmounted by
pilasters with recessed panels to ends and between windows
except to left bay, surmounted by giant Doric pilasters;
pilaster strips from first-floor band to left bay; frieze,
cornice, low parapet.
First floor has 10-pane casement to left bay, otherwise 6/6
sashes with tooled architraves and with aprons; cornices to
second and fourth windows, pediment to third with acanthus
consoles.
Second floor has 3/6 sashes with sills.
Ground floor: entrance to left bay, glazed double doors;
inserted multi-pane window to left. Otherwise 6/9 sashes with
friezes and cornices. Side stacks.
Right return: 3 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. Paired Tuscan
pilasters to ends.
First floor has central 6/9 sash between 6/6 sashes with
architraves, cornices and aprons to outer bays. Second floor
has 3/6 sashes.
Ground floor has central 6/6 sash within former entrance,
otherwise 2 tripartite windows, 6/9 between 2/3 sashes with
architraves of Tuscan pilasters, laurel-wreath friezes and
cornices.
INTERIOR: staircase has tapering rod-on-bobbin balusters.
Modillion cornice partly remains to hall. Elaborate moulded
cornices to front rooms, ground floor. Dogleg service
staircase has stick balusters.
HISTORICAL NOTE: built as right-hand block of proposed Arbenie
Crescent. Clarendon Place was laid out in 1825.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 58).

Listing NGR: SP3144466187

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661361

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)