Numbers 1 And 1A And Attached Railings

Numbers 1 and 1A are two dwellings, originally a single villa, built around 1825-1830 in Royal Leamington Spa. The property was designed by William Buddle Sr and Jr, who also designed numbers 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill. It is constructed of brownish-red brick with painted stucco facades, covered by a Welsh slate roof, and features cast-iron railings.

The main three-story section has three first-floor windows on the street facade, with a lower, single-story section recessed to the right, featuring one first-floor window. The garden facade is two stories tall with attics and a basement, incorporating two full-height bowed bays, each containing four first-floor windows. The street facade exhibits stucco detailing, including channelling to the ground floor and Tuscan pilasters supporting a sill band that extends through the first and second floors. A central entrance has two roll-edged steps leading to a six-fielded panel door with a fanlight featuring decorative glazing, all set within a porch framed by engaged Doric pilasters and fluted Ionic columns, topped with a frieze, cornice, and blocking course. The windows on the street facade are predominantly 6/6 sashes in tooled architraves, with the central first-floor window also featuring ears. Basement windows are 3/6 sashes. A low parapet tops the facade, and side and roof stacks are present. A more recent C20 garage door replaces earlier features on the right-hand range's ground floor, and the first floor retains a 6/6 sash window. The garden facade comprises tall 4/4 sashes on the ground floor and 6/6 sashes on the first floor, all with plain reveals. A round-arched staircase window, containing a 6/9 sash with radial glazing to the head and margin-lights, is found to the left return. Another 6/6 sash with margin-lights is also present.

The interior retains original plasterwork, notably moulded cornices in the entrance hall, although a full inspection has not been undertaken. The area railings are distinguished by fleur-de-lys finials. Originally intended as part of a plan for Bertie Circus, the property was constructed with the garden facades facing inwards. Historical records from 1852 indicate that numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill were initially part of the same architectural scheme. Originally named Back Lane, Clarendon Crescent was renamed around 1838, coinciding with the abandonment of the Circus plan. The original design, featuring a series of full-height bows, is best appreciated from the rear garden facade, as seen in numbers 1-9 Clarendon Crescent and numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill.