Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW BEAUCHAMP HILL
1208-1/1/42 (North side)
25/03/70 Nos.15 AND 17
Beauchamp House

GV II

Villa, now 3 flats. c1837 with later alterations. Probably by
William Buddle, Sr and Jr, builders of Nos 19 and 21 Beauchamp
Hill (qv). Brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate
roof.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 3 first-floor
windows, house recessed to left. Entrance to centre of main
facade: 2 steps to 5-panel door with overlight in distyle
Doric porch with engaged pilasters, architrave and frieze,
cornice and blocking course. 6/6 sashes in plain reveals with
sills throughout, full-height to ground floor. First-floor
band continues around building. Basement has 8/8 and 3/3
sashes. Main range has frieze, cornice and low parapet,
parapet stepped to left recess. Roof stack.
To right return are three 6/6 sashes to ground and 3 to first
floor, with two 3/6 sashes to gable end; small 6/6 sash to
basement.
Rear, garden facade has off-centre bow window through basement
and ground floor with two 6/9 sashes to ground floor and two
6/6 sashes to basement. Continuous first-floor band with
cornice and blocking course to bow. Otherwise 6/6 and 4/4
sashes. To right return a round-arched staircase window with
fixed lights, otherwise 6/6 and 3/6 sashes.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: the Board of Health Map of 1852 indicates
that this villa was included in the original (uncompleted)
scheme for a Circus, with the houses constructed to face
inwards and the present garden facades as the main fronts.
Planned as Bertie Circus, the scheme had been abandoned by
1838 when DG Squirhill's Survey names Clarendon Crescent.
Presumably this was the last of the villas to be built as it
has a coherent front and garden facade.
The original architectural scheme for Nos 1-9 (consecutive)
Clarendon Crescent (qqv) and Nos 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill with
its series of full-height bows is best seen from the rear (or
garden) facade.
(Warwick County Record Office (an archive teaching unit): The
Rise of Leamington Spa: A Century of Growth 1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3130766208

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661286

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