Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER CRESCENT
577-1/31/527 (South East side)
13/10/52 Nos.7-31 (Consecutive)
and attached gate piers, walls and
railings
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER CRESCENT
Nos.7-15 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER CRESCENT
Nos.16-25 (Consecutive))
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER CRESCENT
Nos.26-31 (Consecutive))

GV II*

Terraced houses. 1843-7. By Amon Henry Wilds. Stucco, roof of
slate and tiles where visible but mostly obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement with additional wings of one
and 2 storeys randomly but generally throughout the crescent;
3-window range except Nos 24-25 which are of 4-window range.
The houses are arranged in a concave crescent and are grouped
in 2 ways: the houses at the ends of the crescent are grouped
in blocks of 3 (Nos 7-9, 10-12, 13-15, 26-28 and 29-31); the
houses in the middle in blocks of 2 (Nos 16-17, 18-19, 20-21,
22-23 and 24-5); the centre of each block is brought forward
and given a giant order and pediment, while the wings set back
serve to link one block with another; in a general view the
crescent presents 10 projecting pedimented fronts, those to
the outer, 3-house type being broader than the inner ones;
most of the considerable alterations and additions that have
taken place are in the recessed parts between the fronts. It
is simplest to describe the 2 different types of block first.
3-house block: the inner house stands slightly forward. Ground
floor decorated with banded rustication. The outer houses have
flat-arched porches in the outer bays, presumably originally
single-storeyed, with pilasters and entablatures; the entrance
to the inner house is in the left-hand bay and round-arched;
ground-floor windows flat-arched to outer houses, round-arched
to inner; first-floor windows flat-arched with moulded stucco
architraves, those to the inner house flanked by giant
pilasters, and with subsidiary pilasters and entablature to
each window, the entablature decorated with wreaths; bracketed
balcony with cast-iron railings to inner house; second-floor
windows flat-arched with moulded stucco architrave;
entablature; pediment over inner house; blocking course.
2-house block: The ground floor decorated with banded
rustication. Flat-arched entrance in recessed single-storey
porch to outer bay, with pilasters and entablature; all
windows flat-arched; the projecting part of the block is of
5-window range, the central window blank, leaving 2 windows to
each house in this part. Moulded stucco architrave to outer
windows only on first and second floors; the 3 inner windows
are flanked by giant pilasters and this part is set slightly
forward again; entablature; pediment over 3 inner windows;
blocking course.
Individual houses have the following features and variations:
No.7: double panelled door of original studded design; 6/6
sashes of original design to first floor over porch; gabled
dormer in mansard roof. No.8: fluted Corinthian pilasters;
bracketed balcony with cast-iron railings. No.9: 6/6 sashes of
original design to recessed outer bay. No.10 individual
cast-iron balconies to first floor. No.11: fluted pilasters
with ammonite capitals; bracketed balcony with cast-iron
railings; 3/6 sashes of original design to second floor. Nos
13 and 15: round-arched windows to ground floor. No.14:
unfluted Corinthian pilasters; bracketed balcony with
cast-iron railings. No.16: considerably added to in porch
area. Nos 16-17, 20-21 and 22-23 all have fluted pilasters
with ammonite capitals. Nos 24-25 are a 2- house block with
some of the character of the 3-house type: they have an
additional bay outside the porch bay, and they have subsidiary
pilasters and wreathed entablature surrounding the first-floor
windows; here the entablature continues over the porch at
first-floor level; on No.24 the outer bays and the second
floor of the front block have sashes of original design. Nos
26 and 28 have panels of blank balustrading below the inner
first-floor windows;the ground-floor windows of No.27 are
flat-arched and the Corinthian pilasters are panelled. No.30
has unfluted Corinthian pilasters, and a bracketed balcony
with cast-iron railings.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Square piers to gates and between properties, originally
stuccoed and corniced, with a low wall between, surviving at
Nos 15-25, 28-9; cast-iron area railings survive in part to
Nos 7, 18, 20, 22-3, 26-31, probably with much replacement.
Nos 22-23 and 26-28 have elaborate cast-iron balconies to
ground floor, presumably of late C19 date.

Listing NGR: TQ3046004909

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17549537

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Recommended Books

• 
  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
• 
  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)