Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/560 (West side)
13/10/52 Nos.13 AND 14
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, 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 are under
separate roofs.
The front part: ground floor decorated with banded
rustication; first floor with long and short quoins.
Flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles supporting
first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade, the balustrade
missing on No.13; 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 with 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.13;
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 6/6 sashes of original design to first floor.
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 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: TQ3034204691

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660311

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Yorkshire: York and the East Riding (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)