Number 2 and Attached Railings
NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2, CLARENDON CRESCENT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381229
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2, CLARENDON CRESCENT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381229
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Number 2 and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2, CLARENDON CRESCENT
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBER 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 2, CLARENDON CRESCENT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Warwickshire
- District:
- Warwick (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Royal Leamington Spa
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 31350 66223
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3166SW CLARENDON CRESCENT
1208-1/1/96 (West side)
19/11/53 No.2
and attached railings
GV II
Villa and attached railings. c1825-1830 with later additions
and alterations. Builders, William Buddle Sr and Jr of Nos 19
& 21 Beauchamp Hill (qv). Brownish-red brick with painted
stucco facades to front, garden and right, Welsh slate roof
and cast-iron railings.
PLAN: double-depth.
EXTERIOR: main range of 2 storeys with basement and attics, 4
first-floor windows, with recessed range to right of 2
storeys, 1 first-floor window.
Garden facade has 2 storeys with basement and attics, with 2
bows to full height (4 first-floor windows).
Main range. Stucco detailing includes channelling to ground
floor, first-floor band supports 5 Doric pilasters arranged to
ends and between windows. Plinth.
Off-centre entrance: 3 roll-edged steps to part-glazed,
4-panel door. Architrave has slender pilasters and narrow
lights, cambered overlight with glazing bars, plain reveals.
Doric porch has pilasters and two fluted columns, stepped
frieze, cornice, blocking course. Further entrance to left a
4-panel door; two 6/6 sashes.
First floor has 2 x 6/6 sashes, blind opening, 6/6 sash, all
with tooled architraves and sills. Basement has 8/8 sash, 2/2
sash and 8/8 sash.
Frieze, cornice, low parapet with 4 fielded panels, side and
roof stacks.
Range to right, ground floor, has former elliptical carriage
arch now with multi-paned casement. First floor has 1/1 sash
with margin-lights and tooled architrave. Moulded cornice.
Garden facade: ground floor has 10-pane French windows and
cast-iron balcony. First floor has 6/6 sashes. Low parapet.
Roof dormers.
INTERIOR: retains original plasterwork and joinery including
dogleg staircase with tapered rod-on-bobbin balusters and
wreathed handrail. Shutters to some windows, including windows
to ground-floor bows.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps have bars and
spearhead finials.
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 was included in
that architectural scheme. When laid out c1825 Clarendon
Crescent was known 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 Nos 15 and 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; Warwick County Record Office (an
archive teaching unit): The Rise of Leamington Spa: A Century
of Growth 1783-1886).
Listing NGR: SP3135066223
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481589
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
The Rise of Leamington Spa: A Century of Growth, 1783-1886, ()
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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