Number 6 And Attached Railings

Number 6, with its attached railings, is a villa built around 1825-1830, constructed by William Buddle Sr and Jr, the same builders responsible for numbers 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill. The villa is of pinkish-brown brick with a painted stucco facade on the front and garden, topped with a Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings.

The street facade has two storeys, with a basement and attic to the gabled right side, displaying three first-floor windows. The garden front rises to two storeys with a basement and attics, featuring two full-height bows that create four first-floor windows. An entrance porch projects on the left side, housing a four-panel door with side lights featuring glazing bars, all beneath an elliptically-arched overlight. The porch is supported by fluted Doric columns and a pedimented gable. The central window on the first floor is a tripartite window with 6/6 sashes, flanked by 3/3 sashes. Other windows are 6/6 sashes on the first floor, a 3/6 sash in the attic, and 8/8 and 3/6 sashes in the basement. The gables have plain barge boards and copings, and there are end, central, and roof stacks. A garage to the right has a 20th-century door and an oculus within a keystone at the gable, along with a pedimented gable and a clock on the roof ridge. The garden facade features 10-pane French windows on the ground floor and 6/6 sashes on the first floor. It also incorporates a frieze, a cornice, a low parapet, roof dormers, and a hipped roof. The interior remains uninspected. Attached to the right are lancet area railings.

Historically, William Louis de Normanville, Borough Engineer and Surveyor of Leamington (1882-1917), resided at Number 6. Originally part of a scheme known as Bertie Circus, the houses were designed to face inwards, with the present garden facades serving as the main fronts. The Board of Health Map of 1852 linked its development to numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill. Initially named Back Lane, it was later renamed Clarendon Crescent by 1838, when the original circus design was abandoned. The rear (garden) facade best showcases the intended architectural scheme for numbers 1 to 9 (consecutive) of Clarendon Crescent, and numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill, characterized by a series of full-height bows.