Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE CLARENDON SQUARE
1208-1/2/109 (South side)
19/11/53 Nos.3-6 (Consecutive)
Rofe House (Nos 3, 4 and 5) and
Napoleon House (Nos 6 and 6A)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now houses and flats. c1833-37 with later
alterations, possibly to the designs of William Thomas.
Pinkish-red brick in English Garden Wall Bond to sides and
rear with painted stucco front facade, Welsh slate roof and
cast-iron dressings.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and 12 bays divided 3:3:3:3
of which the 3 left bays project; 12 first floor windows.
Rustication to basement and ground floor. First-floor band,
missing to No.4, surmounted by Ionic, Doric and 2 sets of
Ionic pilasters through first and second floors to ends of
each dwelling.
French windows throughout: three of plate-glass with divided
overlights; three of 6 panes with margin-lights and divided
overlights; and 6 of 8 panes with divided overlights, all with
margin-lights; all in plain reveals and those to 4th, 5th and
6th windows with tooled architraves.
Second floor has 3/6 sashes with sills, those to windows 4 to
6 with tooled architraves. Frieze, cornice, blocking course.
Ground floor: 7 steps to entrances below 1st, 4th, 7th, and
10th windows: 6-panel door with glazed overlight within
surround of Doric pilaster, frieze and cornice, otherwise
6-panel door and 2 part-glazed doors with decorative panels
all with overlights with glazing bars and within distyle Roman
Doric porches with engaged plain pilasters, frieze with
triglyphs and metopes, cornice.
Windows: two 1/1 sashes; two 8/8 sashes; two 1/1 sashes; two
8/8 sashes, all with sills and flat rusticated arches with
projecting keystones.
Basement entrances as ground floor are 4-panel doors with
overlights with glazing bars, that to right boarded at time of
inspection. Mainly 8/8 sashes with flat rusticated arches and
projecting keystones.
To right return a 21-pane round-arched staircase window. To
rear, several 6/6, 8/8 and 3/6 sashes. Cellars reputedly
extend beneath street. Continuous balconies to first floor,
front facade, each to two left dwellings, and shared to two
right dwellings, from left: with circle-and-anthemion motif,
with anthemion-and-heart motif, otherwise with

heart-circle-and-anthemion uprights.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Napoleon House was the residence of Charles
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, later Napoleon III Emperor of the
French, who stayed here 1838-1839.
Clarendon Square was laid out c1828 to the original scheme by
PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair, and the
houses round it completed c1832, gardens in the Square planted
with trees in May 1830.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 55).

Listing NGR: SP3154066228

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661362

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Recommended Books

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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)