NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7-10, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381243
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7-10, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381243
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7-10, 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:: NUMBERS 7-10 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 7-10, CLARENDON SQUARE

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 31513 66224

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SE CLARENDON SQUARE 1208-1/2/110 (South side) 19/11/53 Nos.7-10 (Consecutive) and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses and attached railings. c1828-1832 with later alterations including mid-C20 extensions to rear. Pinkish-brown brick in English Garden Wall Bond to rear with painted stucco front and side facades, Welsh slate roof and cast-iron dressings. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basements and attics, 12 bays arranged 3:3:3:3: Horizontal rustication to basement and ground floor. Moulded first-floor band to bays 7 to 9 surmounted by 2 plain pilasters to full height. First floor: 10-pane French windows with margin-lights throughout. Second floor: band with pulvinated cornice; 3/6 sashes with sills throughout. Stepped cornice, blocking course. Ground floor: entrances to 3rd and 4th bays are half-glazed doors, unglazed door to 8th bay, all with roll-moulded lower panel, doors to 3rd and 4th bays are embellished with lion-and-wreath knockers, all with overlights with glazing bars and with panelled reveals, and surrounds of engaged Doric pilasters, frieze with triglyphs and metopes, cornice to 4th bay. To 11th bay a 6-panel door between margin lights with ornate fanlight within distyle Roman Doric porch with plain, engaged pilasters, frieze, cornice with guttae. 1/1 sashes to bays 1, 2, 5 and 6 with flat, rusticated arches, 4-pane sashes to bays 7 and 9, 12-pane sashes to bays 10 and 12, all with sills. Basement entrances to 2nd, 5th, 8th and 11th bays are panelled doors; mainly 8/8 sashes, 3/6 sash. Coal cellars extend under pavement. Roof hipped to right, ridge stacks. Right return to ground floor has two 6/6 sashes with decorative blind boxes, to first floor are similar French windows with balcony, second-floor band continues, 3/6 sashes, cornice and blocking course continue. To rear: 6/6 sashes and 3/6 sashes. First-floor balconies have rod-anthemion-and-scroll motif; anthemion-and-lion-mask motif; and anthemion-and-scroll motif. INTERIOR, No.9: shutters to ground floor windows. Adamesque-Rococo chimneypiece to right-hand room. Ceiling roses. Archway to rear dogleg staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail. Mainly 4-panel doors. First floor has

panelled sliding doors between rooms and acorn-moulded cornice. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and to sides of steps have double oval surmounted by fleur-de-lys to Nos 7, 8 and 10; lancet railings with anthemion finials to stanchions to No.9. HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces, Clarendon Square (qv) was laid out to original plans by PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair. The houses were completed c1832, the gardens in the Square were planted with trees in May 1830. (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: SP3151366224

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Legacy System number:: 481603
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 55
'List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest' in Royal Leamington Spa, (1989)

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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.