NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381246
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, CLARENDON SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381246
Date first listed:: 19-Nov-1953
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, 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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Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 15 AND 16 AND 17 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 15, 16 AND 17, CLARENDON SQUARE

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County:: Warwickshire
District:: Warwick (District Authority)
Parish:: Royal Leamington Spa
National Grid Reference:: SP 31440 66281

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW CLARENDON SQUARE 1208-1/1/113 (West side) 19/11/53 Nos.15, 16 AND 17 and attached railings

GV II

Terrace of 3 houses, now flats. c1828-1832 with later alterations, including those to No.16 of 1991. Pinkish-brown brick to rear with painted stucco to front and side facades, Welsh slate roof, lead roof to verandah, and cast-iron railings. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys with basement, 9 first-floor windows, of which the central 3 project, and with recessed, single-storey side bays. First floor has 10-pane French windows throughout. Second floor: 8/8 sashes within tooled, eared architraves with moulded sills with horns. Third floor has 6/6 sashes within eared architraves. Cornice. Ground floor: 3 steps to central entrance (to No.16) a 4-panel door between margin-lights, beneath fanlight with Gothick glazing under cambered arch. Distyle Roman Doric porch with plain engaged pilasters supporting dentil frieze with wreath motif, and cornice. Otherwise, entrances to Nos 15 and 17 in side bays are part-glazed doors set behind Roman Doric screen with dentil frieze with wreath motif, which adjoins Nos 14 (qv) and 18 (qv) and is ramped to the centre. Windows: 6/6 sashes except to 6th bay, a tripartite sash with 6/6 centre and 2/2 sidelights, all within tooled, eared architraves with moulded sills on plain corbels. Basement: part-glazed doors to 5th and 8th bays; 6/6 and 8/8 sashes. To rear a round-arched staircase window with stained glass showing view of Bramshill, Hampshire. First floor has continuous verandah with anthemion motif. INTERIOR to No.16 has openwell staircase with tapered rod-on-bobbin balusters, stick balusters to upper stage, and wreathed handrail. Shutters to ground and first floor windows. Egg-and-dart cornices to ground floor, modillion cornice to first floor. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: lancet railings to sides of central steps and to areas, with gates to basement. HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces, Clarendon Square (qv) laid out c1828 to the plans of PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street, Mayfair. The houses round were completed c1832, and the gardens in the Square were planted with trees in May 1830.

Nos 11-21 (consec) form an architectural set piece of fine buildings. (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: SP3144066281

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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.