Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/562 (West side)
13/10/52 Nos.17 AND 18
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; 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 6/6 sashes of original design to basement of
No.18 and margin lights 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: TQ3032804646

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660313

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  ENGLAND GUIDE TO POST WAR LISTED: A Guide to Post-war Listed Buildings
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)