Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON SQUARE
1208-1/1/112 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.12, 13 AND 14
and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now flats and attached railings.
c1828-1832. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco to front
and sides, Welsh slate roof, cast-iron railings and verandah
and lead verandah roof.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and attic, 7 bays arranged
2:3:2, of which the central 3 project, and with recessed
2-lower-storey single bays to sides.
First floor: 8-pane French windows with divided overlights
throughout.
Second floor: 8/8 sashes within tooled, eared architraves and
sills with horns. Modillion cornice, blocking course; raised
parapet to central 3 bays has recessed panel. Cornice
continues as moulded band to returns.
Ground floor, entrances: 4th bay, 3 steps to central entrance
(to No.13) a 4-panel door with margin-lights beneath fanlight
with Gothick glazing within distyle Roman Doric porch with
engaged plain pilasters, dentil frieze with wreath motif and
cornice.
Otherwise entrances in side bays are panelled doors, set
behind a screen of Roman Doric columns, dentil frieze with
wreaths, which adjoins screens to Nos 11 (qv) and 15 (qv) and
is ramped to centre.
Windows: three 6/6 sashes; tripartite sash: 6/6 between 2/2;
two 6/6 sashes; all within tooled, eared architraves and
moulded sills with horns.
Basement does not correspond to bays but has central door to
each dwelling, part-glazed to centre otherwise panelled;
windows: 6-pane casement, 3/9 sash, 6/6 sash, 8/8 sash, 3/6
sash, 6-pane casement. First floor has continuous verandah
with roundel-and-palm motif.
INTERIOR: No.14 reputed to have ornate cast-iron fireplaces.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and to sides of steps have
anthemion motif, with gates to basement.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces,
Clarendon Square (qv) was laid out c1828 to the plans of PF
Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair. The houses
round were completed c1832, the gardens in the Square were
planted with trees in May 1830.
Nos 11-21 (consec) form an architectural set piece of fine

buildings.
(Roth D: Early C19 Decorative Ironwork: a study based on
Leamington Spa: figs: 36-7: 79: 105: 1976-; 72, 77, 105; Cave
LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 55; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3144166250

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661365

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  London 6: Westminster (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England): Westminster v. 6
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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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)