ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A)

ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A), 3-6A, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381242
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A)
Statutory Address:: ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A), 3-6A, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381242
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A)
Statutory Address 1:: ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A), 3-6A, CLARENDON SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: ROFE HOUSE (NUMBERS 3 AND 4 AND 5) AND NAPOLEAN HOUSE (NUMBERS 6 AND 6A), 3-6A, CLARENDON SQUARE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31540 66228

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE CLARENDON SQUARE 1208-1/2/109 (South side) 19/11/53 Nos.3-6 (Consecutive) Rofe House (Nos 3, 4 and 5) and Napoleon House (Nos 6 and 6A)

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses, now houses and flats. c1833-37 with later alterations, possibly to the designs of William Thomas. Pinkish-red brick in English Garden Wall Bond to sides and rear with painted stucco front facade, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron dressings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and 12 bays divided 3:3:3:3 of which the 3 left bays project; 12 first floor windows. Rustication to basement and ground floor. First-floor band, missing to No.4, surmounted by Ionic, Doric and 2 sets of Ionic pilasters through first and second floors to ends of each dwelling. French windows throughout: three of plate-glass with divided overlights; three of 6 panes with margin-lights and divided overlights; and 6 of 8 panes with divided overlights, all with margin-lights; all in plain reveals and those to 4th, 5th and 6th windows with tooled architraves. Second floor has 3/6 sashes with sills, those to windows 4 to 6 with tooled architraves. Frieze, cornice, blocking course. Ground floor: 7 steps to entrances below 1st, 4th, 7th, and 10th windows: 6-panel door with glazed overlight within surround of Doric pilaster, frieze and cornice, otherwise 6-panel door and 2 part-glazed doors with decorative panels all with overlights with glazing bars and within distyle Roman Doric porches with engaged plain pilasters, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice. Windows: two 1/1 sashes; two 8/8 sashes; two 1/1 sashes; two 8/8 sashes, all with sills and flat rusticated arches with projecting keystones. Basement entrances as ground floor are 4-panel doors with overlights with glazing bars, that to right boarded at time of inspection. Mainly 8/8 sashes with flat rusticated arches and projecting keystones. To right return a 21-pane round-arched staircase window. To rear, several 6/6, 8/8 and 3/6 sashes. Cellars reputedly extend beneath street. Continuous balconies to first floor, front facade, each to two left dwellings, and shared to two right dwellings, from left: with circle-and-anthemion motif, with anthemion-and-heart motif, otherwise with

heart-circle-and-anthemion uprights. INTERIOR: not inspected. HISTORICAL NOTE: Napoleon House was the residence of Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, later Napoleon III Emperor of the French, who stayed here 1838-1839. Clarendon Square was laid out c1828 to the original scheme by PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair, and the houses round it completed c1832, gardens in the Square planted with trees in May 1830. (Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 55).

Listing NGR: SP3154066228

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Sources

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Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 55

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.