Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE CLARENDON SQUARE
1208-1/2/119 (East side)
19/11/53 Nos.32-43 (Consecutive)
and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 12 houses, now houses and flats and attached
railings. c1828-1832 with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh
slate roof, with cast-iron railings and balconies.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basements and attics, 32 first-floor
windows arranged 3:3:3:3:2:3:3:2:2:3:2 of which 1 to 6 project
(left end) and 18 to 24 (centre of range) project and are
taller.
Stucco detailing includes rustication to ground floor and
basement, horizontal rustication to right. Continuous
first-floor sill band with giant Tuscan pilasters from first
through second floors to left end and to right of windows 1,
2, and 3, and to ends and between windows of central
projection.
First floor: seventeen 8-pane French windows, some with blind
boxes; three tall 1/1 sashes and three 6-pane French windows,
1/1 sash, French windows, two 10-pane French windows, three
4-pane French windows, two 6/9 sashes, all in plain reveals,
those to central projection have tooled architraves, frieze
and cornice.
Second floor: mainly 6/6 sashes, windows 4, 5 and 6 have blind
boxes, 8th and 11th openings are blind; all in plain reveals
and with sills and with tooled architraves to 18th and 23rd.
Interrupted frieze, continuous stepped cornice.
Attics have 3/6, 6/6 and 3/3 sashes, 8th and 11th openings are
blind.
Ground floor: side entrances mainly 3- and 4-panel doors, some
part-glazed, with overlights and fanlights, all with Gibbs
surrounds. Mainly with distyle Roman Doric porches with
engaged pilasters, friezes with triglyphs and metopes,
cornices, except those to central projection (Nos 38 and 39)
have slightly recessed entrances with elliptical overlights
and elliptically-arched channelled surrounds with Doric
pilasters to left and pilaster strips to right; Nos 41 and 43
have cambered-arched surrounds with flat channelled arches.
Windows: 6/6 sashes, some with sidelights, 1/1 and 2/2 sashes,
6/8 sash and tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes.
All with plain reveals and in eared architraves, some with
blind boxes (Nos 34, 36, 42 and 42).

Basement has part-glazed doors and 8/8 sashes. Continuous
frieze, blocking course. End stacks. Continuous first-floor
balcony to Nos 32, 33 and 34 has Carron Company
double-heart-and-anthemion motif, similar to Nos 36, 40, 41,
42 and 43; Nos 35 and 37 have anthemion-and-circle motif; Nos
38 and 39 have individual balconies with
double-rod-and-anthemion motif. Individual balcony to No.43,
ground floor. Some anthemion mud scrapers to steps.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet area railings and gates and to
sides of steps throughout.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces,
Clarendon Square was laid out c1828 to the plans of PF
Robinson, architect, of Bond Street, Mayfair. The houses to
the east side were completed c1839 and cost »1,500 each, the
gardens in the Square were planted with trees in May 1830.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39, 55; Dept of the Environment List of
Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3154666316

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661373

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