Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/561 (West side)
13/10/52 Nos.15 AND 16
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;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 to No.15; bracketed balcony to
ground-floor windows with cast-iron railings and fringed
canopy over,the fringe missing on No.16; 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 basement and
margin lights to first floor on No.15. 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: TQ3033304669

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660312

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
• 
  Farrow & Ball How to Decorate: Transform your home with paint & paper
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990