Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/559 (West side)
13/10/52 Nos.11 AND 12
and attached railings and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER VILLAS
Nos.11-20 (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; on the return in Victoria Road, No.11
has 6-window range, No.12 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. Flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles
supporting first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade, the
scalloped work missing to No.12; 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; 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 of No.11 in Victoria Road has a segmental bay to
the ground and first floors with tripartite windows, and
sashes of original design to first floor; otherwise,
flat-arched windows with 6/6 sashes of original design. The
easternmost window is blank; 2-window extension to west. No.12
has a canted bay to the ground floor and otherwise flat-arched
windows with 6/6 sashes of original design, the westernmost
blank. 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 12 and 13 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: TQ3035104712

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660310

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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