Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/554 (East side)
13/10/52 Nos.1 AND 2
and attached railings and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER VILLAS
Nos.1-10 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER VILLAS
Railings enclosing the front gardens
of Nos 1-20 (consec))

GV II

Semi-detached houses. c1845. Stucco, roof of slate.
PLAN/EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over raised basement, 2-window range
to Montpelier Villas, 4-window range to return.
In plan, each house is wider towards the back with the
entrance in the resulting angle, and the front and back parts
under separate roofs.
The front part: ground floor decorated with banded
rustication; first floor with long and short quoins. Steps up
to flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles supporting
first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade; overlight;
segmental bay to street front to basement and ground floor
with flat-arched triple windows and terminating in a shallow
dome above the storey band; bracketed balcony to ground-floor
windows with cast-iron railings and fringed canopy over;
first-floor windows flat-arched with margin lights;
westernmost first-floor window on the return blank.
The back part has a full-height segmental bay with tripartite
windows and sashes of original design to first floor; on each
house the easternmost first-floor window is blank; first-floor
window over entrance to No.2 has original margin lights. Eaves
to the whole building on console brackets with paterae in the
frieze, except on extension to No.1 set back behind rear
segmental bay; hipped roof with central and other stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings to entrance steps and front gardens, those
to front gardens with brackets; square, stuccoed, corniced
piers between each pair of houses in Montpelier Villas.
The 20 houses which make up the whole of Montpelier Villas are
of uniform design; such semi-detached houses are rare in
Brighton.
The railings were listed on 20.8.71.

Listing NGR: TQ3035104614

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660305

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover