7, Clarendon Crescent

This is a villa dating to approximately 1825-1830, with later additions and alterations including a 20th-century lean-to on the right side. It was built by William Buddle Sr and Jr, the same architects responsible for numbers 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill, for Luke Dackus. The villa is constructed from pinkish-brown brick in Flemish bond, painted to the street facade, and stuccoed and painted to the left and garden facades. It has a Welsh slate roof. The gable end faces the street.

The villa is two storeys high with a basement and attic to the gable, featuring two first-floor windows. The entrance is on the left return, consisting of a four-panel door with side-lights, all set under a segmental divided overlight. The ground floor windows are 1/1 sashes with margin-lights, and 6/6 sashes. First-floor windows are two 6/6 sashes. The attic has a 3/6 sash. The basement level has a central plank door, with a tripartite 3/6 sash between two 1/2 sashes to the left, and an 8/8 sash to the right. All windows are in plain reveals with sills and elliptical arches. The garden facade features 1/1 sashes on the first floor, a frieze, cornice, a low parapet, and roof dormers. The roof is hipped at the front.

The interior was not inspected during the listing process.

Originally intended as part of a scheme called Bertie Circus, the houses were designed to face inwards, with the garden facades intended as the primary fronts. A map from 1852 indicates that numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill were also part of this planned arrangement. When Clarendon Crescent was laid out around 1825, it was initially known as Back Lane; it acquired its current name by 1838, by which time the circular arrangement had been abandoned. The original plan for numbers 1-9 (consecutive) Clarendon Crescent, along with numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill, which included a series of full-height bows, is best appreciated from the rear, or garden, facade.