9, Clarendon Crescent

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT 1208-1/1/103 (West side) 25/03/70 No.9 (Formerly Listed as: CLARENDON CRESCENT (West side) Nos.8 AND 9)

GV II

Villa. c1825-1830 with later additions and alterations including conservatory of 1920, and with C20 garage. Builders, William Buddle, Sr and Jr of Nos 19 & 21, Beauchamp Hill (qv), for GG Barret. Painted brick with painted stucco side and garden facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron railings and verandah. PLAN: L-shaped, with rear wing to left, gabled to right. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic to gable. Garden facade has 2 storeys with basement and attics, with 2 bows to full height (4 first-floor windows). Street facade, entrance to left a 6-panel door with side-lights and overlight with glazing bars within distyle Doric porch with pillars in antis and fluted columns, frieze, cornice, blocking course. Ground floor has tripartite window, a 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; then a 6/6 sash, both with flat arches of gauged brick. First floor: from left, to wing a rectangular bay, a 2/2 between 1/1 sashes. Otherwise two 6/6 sashes with elliptical arches. To gable an 8/8 sash with cambered head. All windows in plain reveals and with sills. Brick copings to rear range, copings to gable, central, end and roof stacks. Garden facade: ground floor, bows have each two 16-pane French windows in plain reveals. Continuous verandah on plinths with perpendicular style decoration with lattice work between, 5 fluted Doric columns, frieze with modillions. First floor, each bow has two 6/6 sashes with plain reveals and sills. Basement has four 6/6 sashes, sills, plain reveals. Frieze, cornice and blocking course. Peaked roof has central attic dormer. INTERIOR: inner hall has probable original entrance a part-glazed, part roll-moulded door between pilaster strips with side-lights, modillion cornice and elliptical overlight with radial glazing. Dogleg staircase has turned balusters with wreathed handrail. 4-panel doors. Shutters to many windows including pull-up shutters to rear. HISTORICAL NOTE: originally planned as Bertie Circus, the

houses were constructed to face inwards with the present garden facades as the main fronts. The Board of Health Map of 1852 indicates that Nos 15 & 17 Beauchamp Hill (qv) was included in that architectural scheme. When laid out c1825 Clarendon Crescent was know as Back Lane, however DG Squirhill's Survey of 1838 shows it with its present name, presumably by which time the scheme for a Circus had been abandoned. The original architectural scheme for Nos 1-9 (consecutive) Clarendon Crescent (qqv) and No.17 Beauchamp Hill (qv) with its series of full-height bows is best seen from the rear (or garden) facade. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39; Deeds to No.9 Clarendon Crescent; Warwick County Record Office (an archive teaching unit): The Rise of Leamington Spa: A Century of Growth 1783-1886).

Listing NGR: SP3135666325