NUMBERS 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15

NUMBERS 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15, 12-15, MILVERTON CRESCENT

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381387
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15, 12-15, MILVERTON CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381387
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 30-Nov-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15, 12-15, MILVERTON CRESCENT

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 12 TO 15 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS TO NUMBERS 13 AND 15, 12-15, MILVERTON CRESCENT

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 31269 66261

Details

ROYAL LEAMINGTON SPA

SP3166SW MILVERTON CRESCENT 1208-1/1/245 (East side) 25/03/70 Nos.12 TO 15 (Consecutive) and attached railings to Nos 13 and 15 (Formerly Listed as: MILVERTON CRESCENT (East side) Nos.12-15 AND 15A (Consecutive))

GV II

Terrace of 4 houses and attached railings to Nos 13 and 15. c1834-8 with later additions and alterations. Pinkish-brown brick with painted stucco facades and Welsh slate roofs with tall, stuccoed end and centre ridge stacks with cornices to main range; cast-iron verandahs, balcony, porch and railings. PLAN: double-depth, rear entrances to end houses, otherwise side entrances. EXTERIOR: symmetrical facade, the centre of 3 storeys, 4 first-floor windows and end ranges each of 2 storeys, 2 first-floor windows (8 first-floor windows in all), all with basements and attic dormers, further single-storey, single-bay extensions to left and right. Crowning frieze, cornice and low, coped parapet. First floor: (from left) two 8/8 sashes, four tall 6/9 sashes and two 8/8 sashes, all in plain reveals and with tooled architraves, sills. Second floor (centre range): two casement windows and two 3/6 sashes, all in plain reveals with sills and tooled surrounds. Ground floor, windows: two 6-pane French windows with divided overlights in tooled surrounds; two central tripartite windows with 2/2 between 1/1 sashes in plain reveals and with tooled surrounds with sills and blind boxes. Left extension has C20 sliding doors, right extension has 8/8 sash. Basements have 8/8 sashes where original. Attic dormers have casement windows. End entrances to Nos 13 and 14: part-glazed, 4-panel doors with fanlights with radial glazing-bars in round-arched, panelled reveals. To rear the basement gives access to street level; entrances to Nos 12 & 15: 6-panel door in panelled surround with cornice. Further entrances to Nos 13 & 14 at ground-floor level: flights of steps to part-glazed doors, that to No.13 has porch with diamond and oval motif to uprights.

Basements have (from left) tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes; 8/8 sashes; tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes. Ground floor: similar, larger tripartite window with 6/6 between 2/2 sashes, then 6/6 sashes, all in plain reveals and with sills. First floor has 6/6 and 8/8 sashes; second floor has 3/6 sashes. Windows to No.13 have blind boxes. To front facade, ground floor: Nos 12 & 15 each have continuous balcony with double-rod-and-anthemion motif balustrade; To No.14 at first floor a continuous balcony with Carron Company double-heart-and-anthemion motif balustrade. INTERIOR: retain original plasterwork and joinery, including to No.14 a dogleg staircase with stick balusters and wreathed handrail, shutters. Otherwise not inspected. SUBSIDIARY FEATURES: railings to No.13 have fleur-de-lys finials, those to No.15 have sword-hilt finials. HISTORICAL NOTE: Milverton Crescent was laid out and the south half built 1834-8. Forms an architectural group with Nos 16 and 17 Milverton Crescent (qqv) and Milverton House, No.11 Beauchamp Hill (qv). Milverton Crescent allows pedestrian access only, the main access is now to the rear from Strathearn Road. (Dept of the Environment List of Buildings: Royal Leamington Spa: 1970-; Cave LF: Royal Leamington Spa Its History and Development: Chichester: 1988-: 39).

Listing NGR: SP3126966261

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 481747
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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