Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/555 (East side)
13/10/52 Nos.3 AND 4
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; basement windows have 6/6 sashes
of original design; 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 margin lights to first-floor sashes; on each house
the easternmost first-floor window is blank. Eaves on console
brackets with paterae in the frieze; hipped roof with central
and other stacks; additional storey added to rear of No.4.
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: TQ3036104637

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660306

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Recommended Books

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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)