1a, Royal Crescent

1A Royal Crescent is a house located to the right of No. 1 Royal Crescent, built on the site of a former farmhouse. It dates from the mid-18th century and has undergone alterations in the mid-19th and 20th centuries. The building is constructed of limestone ashlar and features a hipped slate roof with two long moulded stacks located at the center and right.

The house is arranged in two blocks that are at right angles to each other, with a larger rectangular block on the right and a smaller block on the left that connects to Royal Crescent. It has two storeys and a basement, with two windows on the larger block facing Upper Church Street and a single bay on the Royal Crescent return front. The left link block has two windows, while the larger block has two first-floor windows and one ground-floor window on the right. The right-of-center entrance features a five-panel door flanked by basement windows, which are paired to the right and set into the plinth. The words 'UPPER CHURCH STREET' are inscribed in Roman capitals at first-floor height. The windows are plate glass sash with painted reveals, and the link block has a lower coped parapet, cornice, and frieze, with two plate glass sash windows on the first floor and a six-over-six pane sash window to the left of a 20th-century door.

The interior has not been inspected. Historically, the appearance of this corner block has changed significantly since the Royal Crescent was originally built. A print by Thomas Malton from 1767 shows the completed pavilion to the right, which originally had a single-story link to No. 1, featuring two blind windows and ground floor Venetian windows facing south and east. The building has seen considerable alterations, likely in the 19th century, but an examination of the stonework reveals that the openings for the Venetian windows still exist, though they are smaller than depicted in Malton's print. There is a bronze plaque commemorating George Saintsbury, a man of letters who lived here from 1916 to 1933, located on the link.