NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12 AND 13 AND 14, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381245
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12 AND 13 AND 14, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381245
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12 AND 13 AND 14, CLARENDON SQUARE

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

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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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 12 AND 13 AND 14 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 12 AND 13 AND 14, CLARENDON SQUARE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31441 66250

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON SQUARE 1208-1/1/112 (West side) 19/11/53 Nos.12, 13 AND 14 and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now flats and attached railings. c1828-1832. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco to front and sides, Welsh slate roof, cast-iron railings and verandah and lead verandah roof. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and attic, 7 bays arranged 2:3:2, of which the central 3 project, and with recessed 2-lower-storey single bays to sides. First floor: 8-pane French windows with divided overlights throughout. Second floor: 8/8 sashes within tooled, eared architraves and sills with horns. Modillion cornice, blocking course; raised parapet to central 3 bays has recessed panel. Cornice continues as moulded band to returns. Ground floor, entrances: 4th bay, 3 steps to central entrance (to No.13) a 4-panel door with margin-lights beneath fanlight with Gothick glazing within distyle Roman Doric porch with engaged plain pilasters, dentil frieze with wreath motif and cornice. Otherwise entrances in side bays are panelled doors, set behind a screen of Roman Doric columns, dentil frieze with wreaths, which adjoins screens to Nos 11 (qv) and 15 (qv) and is ramped to centre. Windows: three 6/6 sashes; tripartite sash: 6/6 between 2/2; two 6/6 sashes; all within tooled, eared architraves and moulded sills with horns. Basement does not correspond to bays but has central door to each dwelling, part-glazed to centre otherwise panelled; windows: 6-pane casement, 3/9 sash, 6/6 sash, 8/8 sash, 3/6 sash, 6-pane casement. First floor has continuous verandah with roundel-and-palm motif. INTERIOR: No.14 reputed to have ornate cast-iron fireplaces. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: area railings and to sides of steps have anthemion motif, with gates to basement. HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces, Clarendon Square (qv) was laid out c1828 to the plans of PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair. The houses round were completed c1832, the gardens in the Square were planted with trees in May 1830. Nos 11-21 (consec) form an architectural set piece of fine

buildings. (Roth D: Early C19 Decorative Ironwork: a study based on Leamington Spa: figs: 36-7: 79: 105: 1976-; 72, 77, 105; 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: SP3144166250

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 481605
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Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 55
Roth, D , Early 19th Century Decorative Ironwork: A study based on Leamington Spa, (1976), 36-7 72 -
'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.