Numbers 12 To 15 And Attached Railings To Numbers 13 And 15

Numbers 12 to 15 Milverton Crescent, Royal Leamington Spa

A terrace of four houses with attached railings to Numbers 13 and 15, built circa 1834–8 with later additions and alterations. The buildings are constructed in pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roofs. Tall stuccoed end and centre ridge stacks with cornices run across the main range. Cast-iron verandahs, balcony, porch and railings are prominent features.

The plan is double-depth with rear entrances to the end houses (Numbers 12 and 15) and side entrances to the middle houses. The facade is symmetrical, with a three-storey central range of four first-floor windows flanked by two-storey end ranges, each with two first-floor windows—eight first-floor windows in total. All sections have basements and attic dormers, with single-storey, single-bay extensions to left and right.

The roofline features a crowning frieze, cornice and low coped parapet. On the first floor are eight-over-eight sash windows to the outer bays and tall six-over-nine sashes to the central range, all with plain reveals and tooled architraves and sills. The second floor of the centre range has casement windows and three-over-six sashes in plain reveals with sills and tooled surrounds. The ground floor contains two six-pane French windows with divided overlights in tooled surrounds, and two central tripartite windows with two-over-two sashes between one-over-one sashes in plain reveals with tooled surrounds, sills and blind boxes. The left extension has twentieth-century sliding doors; the right extension has an eight-over-eight sash. Basement windows are eight-over-eight sashes where original; attic dormers have casement windows.

End entrances to Numbers 13 and 14 have part-glazed four-panel doors with fanlights containing radial glazing-bars, set in round-arched panelled reveals. To the rear, basement access opens to street level. Entrances to Numbers 12 and 15 comprise six-panel doors in panelled surrounds with cornices. Further entrances to Numbers 13 and 14 at ground-floor level are reached by flights of steps; the door to Number 13 opens into a porch with diamond and oval motifs on the uprights.

The rear facade to the basements contains tripartite windows with six-over-six sashes between two-over-two sashes, alongside eight-over-eight sashes, all in plain reveals with sills. The ground floor has similar, larger tripartite windows and six-over-six sashes. The first floor displays six-over-six and eight-over-eight sashes; the second floor has three-over-six sashes. Windows to Number 13 include blind boxes.

On the front facade at ground floor, Numbers 12 and 15 each have continuous balconies with double-rod-and-anthemion-motif balustrades. At first-floor level, Number 14 has a continuous balcony with a Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion-motif balustrade.

The interiors retain original plasterwork and joinery. Number 14 contains a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail, and shutters. The remainder of the interiors were not inspected.

The railings to Number 13 are topped with fleur-de-lys finials; those to Number 15 have sword-hilt finials.

Milverton Crescent was laid out and the south half built between 1834 and 1838. This terrace forms an architectural group with Numbers 16 and 17 Milverton Crescent and Milverton House at Number 11 Beauchamp Hill. The crescent allows pedestrian access only; main access is now via the rear from Strathearn Road.