Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/556 (East side)
13/10/52 Nos.5 AND 6
and attached railings and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER VILLAS
Nos.1-10)
(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, 3-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 basement and ground floor on the street
front, with flat-arched triple windows and terminating in a
shallow dome above the storey band; basement windows have 6/6
sashes of original design; bracketed balcony to ground-floor
windows with cast-iron railings and fringed canopy over, the
fringe lacking on No.6; first-floor windows flat-arched with
margin lights; westernmost first-floor window on the return
blank; window over entrance with margin lights.
The back part has a full-height segmental bay with tripartite
windows, 6/6 sashes to basement on No.5, margin lights to
first-floor sashes on Nos 5 and 6. Eaves on console brackets
with paterae in the frieze; 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: TQ3036904659

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660307

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments