Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/558 (East side)
13/10/52 Nos.9 AND 10
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, 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 missing on No.10; first-floor windows
flat-arched with blind boxes; westernmost first-floor window
on the return blank.
The back part has a full-height segmental bay with tripartite
windows. 6/6 sashes to basement and margin lights to
first-floor sashes. Eaves on console brackets with paterae in
the frieze; hipped roof with stacks to front and back parts.
INTERIOR: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to entrance steps
and front gardens, those to front gardens with brackets;
square, stuccoed, corniced pier between Nos 8 and 9 only.
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: TQ3038004702

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660309

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