Clarence House

CLARENCE HOUSE, 52 AND 54, GROVE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381300
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Clarence House
Statutory Address:
CLARENCE HOUSE, 52 AND 54, GROVE STREET
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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1381300
Date first listed:
25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:
Clarence House
Statutory Address 1:
CLARENCE HOUSE, 52 AND 54, GROVE STREET

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
CLARENCE HOUSE, 52 AND 54, GROVE STREET

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 31382 65843

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3165NW GROVE STREET
1208-1/6/165 (West side)
25/03/70 Nos.52 AND 54
Clarence House

GV II

House, now flats. 1828-1834, with later alterations.
Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh
slate roof with cast-iron verandah.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows with
deeply-recessed, 2-storey, one first-floor window range to
right. Plinth. 5 roll-edged and one plain step to off-centre
entrance a 3-panel door, the lower panel roll-moulded, with
sidelights, within distyle Tuscan porch with frieze, cornice
and blocking course.
Windows: 6/6 sashes throughout except that opening to
first-floor left is blind, all with sills and in plain
reveals. Hipped roof, end and rear stacks. Garden facade (to
left): 2 storeys, 3 first-floor windows. First floor: three
6/6 sashes, plain reveals, sills, with Venetian shutter boxes
and shutters.
Ground floor: two 4-pane French windows with divided
overlights and with inserted casement between; 5 roll-edged
steps and 1 plain step to continuous verandah with scrolled
balustrade and ornamental struts.
Range to right has part-glazed entrance to ground floor and
1/1 sash to first floor.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Grove Street was laid out in 1828, the west
side and lower part of the east side were built by 1834.
Occupies a corner site, and forms an architectural group with
Nos 4-14 (even) Portland Place (qv).
(Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development:
Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3138265843

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
481660
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Cave, L F, Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development, (1988), 39

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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