Arden House and Attached Railings
ARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18, 19 AND 20, CLARENDON SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381247
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Arden House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address:
- ARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18, 19 AND 20, CLARENDON SQUARE
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- Date:
- 2005-04-07
- Reference:
- IOE01/14231/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1381247
- Date first listed:
- 19-Nov-1953
- List Entry Name:
- Arden House and Attached Railings
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18, 19 AND 20, CLARENDON SQUARE
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:
- ARDEN HOUSE AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 18, 19 AND 20, 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 31436 66310
Details
ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA
SP3166SW CLARENDON SQUARE
1208-1/1/114 (West side)
19/11/53 Nos.18, 19 AND 20
Arden House and attached railings
GV II
3 houses, now residential home and attached railings.
c1828-1832, with later additions and alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh
slate roof with cast-iron railings and verandah.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys with basement and attics to gables, 7
first-floor windows of which the centre 3 project; 2-storey,
single entrance bay recessed to sides.
First floor has 10-pane French windows in tooled, eared
architraves throughout. Second floor: 6/6 sashes in similar
architraves with horns. Modillion cornice, blocking course
rises to central upshot with indented plaque with anthemion
frieze; cornice to centre, copings to sides.
Ground floor: central and end entrances; central entrance, 3
steps to part-glazed, 4-panel door with margin-lights with
elliptical overlight with gothic glazing, within distyle Doric
porch with engaged pilasters, frieze, dentil cornice and
blocking course.
Side entrances, 3-panel door to left and 4-panel, part-glazed
door to right behind Doric screens which abut No.17 (qv) to
left and No.21 (qv) to right. Otherwise four 6/6 and two 2/2
sashes with eared architraves and sills with horns and
inserted entrances. Basement has 3/6 and casement windows.
Roof stacks. First floor has verandah with heart-and-anthemion
motif and tent roof.
INTERIOR: central entrance hall with modillion cornice and
arch to rear hall. Reception rooms have decorative cornices.
Staircase to right side has turned balusters.
SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to sides of steps and to area
have anthemion finials.
HISTORICAL NOTE: a complete square of stucco terraces laid out
c1828 to the plans of PF Robinson, architect, of Brook Street,
Mayfair. The houses 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.
(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: SP3143666310
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481607
- 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)
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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