4, Clarendon Crescent

The property at 4 Clarendon Crescent is a villa dating from approximately 1825 to 1830, with later additions and alterations. It was built by William Buddle Sr and Jr, the same architects responsible for numbers 19 and 21 Beauchamp Hill. The villa is constructed of pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades to the front and garden, and stucco facades to the sides, topped with a Welsh slate roof and cast-iron dressings.

The main facade is two storeys high with a basement, featuring four first-floor windows. A projecting, single-storey, single-bay entrance bay extends to the right. The garden facade has two storeys and includes casements and attic windows, along with two full-height bows accommodating four first-floor windows. Stucco detailing on the street facade includes flat pilasters to the ends of the building. The ground floor entrance features a four-panel door within a porch of Doric pilasters and fluted Ionic pillars, topped with a frieze bearing laurel wreaths and a modillion pediment. To either side of the entrance bay are three six-pane casements with radial glazing to the heads, all within tooled surrounds. Six-pane sashes are present on the ground and first floors, with the ground floor sashes being taller and also in tooled surrounds. The basement has two six-pane casements. A cornice is topped by a low parapet, and end and roof stacks are present. The garden facade has a ground floor bow with curved four-pane sashes, a verandah with slender Doric columns and a tented roof, and first-floor bows with curved four-pane sashes resting on acanthus brackets. Nine-pane staircase sashes are present to the left and right. This facade also has a frieze, cornice, and low parapet, with roof dormers.

The interior includes a dogleg staircase with tapering rod-on-bobbin balusters and a wreathed handrail, with shutters to some windows. Originally planned as Bertie Circus, the houses were designed to face inwards, with the present garden facades serving as the original frontages. A map from 1852 shows that number 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill were part of the same architectural scheme. When Clarendon Crescent was first laid out around 1825, it was known as Back Lane; however, a survey from 1838 shows it with its present name, indicating that the design for a circus had been abandoned by that time. The sequence of full-height bows is best viewed from the rear garden facade, and applies to numbers 1 to 9 (consecutive) Clarendon Crescent and numbers 15 and 17 Beauchamp Hill.