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Another wonder around the streets of Leamington Spa town centre. So much regency architecture.


Arden House in Clarendon Square, Leamington Spa. At 18-20 Clarendon Square.

Grade II listed building.

Arden House and Attached Railings, Royal Leamington Spa

   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


This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.

Source: English Heritage

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Dragon sculpture on the right of the entrance to the drive.
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Source Arden House - 18-20 Clarendon Square, Leamington Spa - right dragon
Author Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom
Camera location52° 17′ 38.04″ N, 1° 32′ 25.22″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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