Description

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/98 (West side)
25/03/70 No.4
(Formerly Listed as:
CLARENDON CRESCENT
(West side)
Nos.3 AND 4)

GV II

Villa. c1825-1830 with later additions and alterations.
Builders, William Buddle Sr and Jr of Nos 19 & 21 Beauchamp
Hill (qv). Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades to
front and garden and stucco facades to sides, Welsh slate
roof, cast-iron dressings.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with basement, 4 first-floor windows,
projecting single-storey, single-bay entrance bay to right.
Garden facade has 2 storeys with casement and attics, 2
full-height bows (4 first-floor windows).
Street facade stucco detailing includes full-height plain
pilasters to ends. Ground floor: entrance a 4-panel door in
narrow, tooled surround within porch of Doric pilasters in
antis and 2 fluted Ionic pillars, frieze with laurel wreaths,
modillion pediment. To sides of entrance bay are three 6-pane
casements with radial glazing to heads and tooled surrounds.
Otherwise 6/6 sashes to ground and first floors, taller to
ground floor in tooled surrounds, sills. Basement has two 6/6
casements. Cornice, low parapet. End and roof stacks.
Garden facade: ground floor bows have curved 4/4 sashes,
verandah with slender Doric columns and tented roof. First
floor, bows have curved 4/4 sashes on sills with acanthus
brackets. 9/9 staircase sashes to left and right. Frieze,
cornice, low parapet. Roof dormers.
INTERIOR: dogleg staircase with tapering rod-on-bobbin
balusters and wreathed handrail, shutters to some windows.
HISTORICAL NOTE: originally planned as Bertie Circus, the
houses were constructed to face inwards with the present
garden facades as the main fronts.
The Board of Health Map of 1852 indicates that Nos 15 & 17
Beauchamp Hill (qv) was included in that architectural scheme.
When laid out c1825 Clarendon Crescent was known as Back Lane,
however DG Squirhill's Survey of 1838 shows it with its
present name, presumably by which time the scheme for a Circus
had been abandoned.
The architectural scheme for Nos 1-9 (consecutive) Clarendon
Crescent (qqv) and Nos 15 & 17 Beauchamp Hill (qv) with its

series of full-height bows is best seen from the rear (or
garden) facade.
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39; Warwick County Record Office: The Rise
of Leamington Spa: A Century of Growth 1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3136866250

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661351

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)