3, Clarendon Crescent

Villa, built around 1825 to 1830, with later alterations. Constructed by William Buddle Sr and Jr, also responsible for numbers 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill. The villa is built of brownish-red brick with painted stucco to the front and garden facades, and has a Welsh slate roof.

The main building is two storeys with a basement and attic to the gable, featuring a three-window arrangement on the first floor. The garden facade is two storeys with a basement and attics, and contains two full-height bow windows providing four first-floor windows.

The front facade has an entrance to the left, accessed by four roll-edged steps leading to a five-panel door set within a Doric porch with pilasters and columns, a frieze, cornice, and blocking course. To either side of the door are two six-over-six sash windows in tooled surrounds. The first floor has a rectangular bay window with a central six-over-six sash and two-over-two sashes to the sides. Further six-over-six sashes are present on this floor, all with tooled surrounds and sills. A cornice sits above the bay window, and the gable above the other two windows has an attic window with a three-over-six sash, also in a tooled architrave. The basement has a partially glazed door and a multi-pane casement with an elliptical arch.

The garden facade features ground-floor French windows and first-floor six-over-six sashes in plain reveals with sills, all topped by a frieze, cornice, and blocking course. A side stack is also present.

The interior includes a dogleg staircase with tapering rod-on-bobbin balusters and a wreathed handrail, along with moulded cornices.

Historically, the development was originally planned as Bertie Circus, where the houses were intended to face inwards with the garden facades serving as the main fronts. A Board of Health Map from 1852 indicates that numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill were part of this architectural scheme. The area was initially known as Back Lane, but by 1838, when Squirhill's Survey was conducted, it was named Clarendon Crescent, at which time the plan for a circular layout had been abandoned. The original architectural scheme for numbers 1 to 9 Clarendon Crescent and numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill, with its series of full-height bows, is best appreciated from the rear, or garden, facade.