Numbers 23 And 25 And Attached Railings

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW BEAUCHAMP HILL 1208-1/1/111 (North side) 19/11/53 Nos.23 AND 25 and attached railings

GV II

See under: No.11 CLARENDON SQUARE.

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON SQUARE 1208-1/1/111 (West side) 19/11/53 No.11

GV II

Formerly known as: Holy Trinity Vicarage. Includes: Nos.23 AND 25 and attached railings BEAUCHAMP HILL. House, now 3 dwellings, with attached railings. c1828-1830 with later alterations. Pinkish-brown brick to rear with painted stucco to front and side facades, Welsh slate roof and cast- and wrought-iron verandah, balcony and railings. Late Classical style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with attic and basement, 3 first-floor windows, with recessed entrance bay to right. First floor has 6/6 sashes in tooled, eared architraves, sills with feet. Ground floor has 8-pane French windows with divided overlights all with margin-lights. Projecting eaves. Entrance: steps to screen with fluted Doric columns which connects with No.12 (qv). Panelled door to No.11 within. Continuous verandah to ground floor has scrolled uprights and ornate frieze with glass roof. Left return: 2 storeys with attic to gable and basement, 3 first-floor windows with further 3-storey, single bay-range. First floor has three 6/6 sashes, that to centre is lower and has margin-lights. Central entrance has flight of roll-edged steps to double doors, within distyle Doric porch, part-infilled, with frieze and cornice. To left, a tripartite window, 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; to right, an 8-pane French window with divided overlight. Attic has 3/3 sash in broken-pedimented gable end. All windows have tooled, eared architraves, those to outer bays have blind boxes, all except French window have moulded sills, those to first floor and attic with feet. Basement has 1/1 sashes. To French window a balcony with scrolled uprights. Further recessed, lower range has to first floor a tripartite window with 2/2 between 1/1 sashes, in plain reveals and with sill. Second floor: continuous band, 2/2 sash with blind box and in plain reveals. Ground floor: entrance to right a wooden doorcase and 6-panel door, 2/2 sash. Further 2/2 and 6/6 sashes to rear. Tall ridge and rear stacks with cornices.

INTERIOR: not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: to either side of steps are lancet railings. HISTORICAL NOTE: formerly the Holy Trinity Vicarage. A complete square of stucco terraces, Clarendon Square (qv) was laid out c1828 to the plans of PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair. The houses round were completed c1832, and the gardens in the Square were planted with trees in May 1830. Nos 11-21 (consec) form an architectural set piece of fine buildings. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 55; Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-).

Listing NGR: SP3144366228