Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER PLACE
577-1/31/534 (South side)
20/08/71 The Montpelier Inn and attached
railings

GV II

Terraced houses, now a public house, though it is possible
that the western, double-fronted part was built as a public
house. c1830. Stucco scored as ashlar on the eastern part, the
rest roughcast enclosed in panels of smooth stucco, roof
obscured by parapet.
EXTERIOR: 3 storeys over basement, 6-window range to
Montpelier Place, one-window range to Borough Street. There
are three 3-storey segmental bays to Montpelier Place, perhaps
originally to 3 houses, or to one house on the east and a
double-fronted house or public house on the west. Principal
entrance between 2 western bays, in a wooden, single-storey
segmental bay, flat-arched, with panelled pilasters and
sidelights flanking moulded and panelled double doors, and
deep mutule cornice. Easternmost part has a subsidiary
entrance and altered ground floor probably of late C20 date.
Otherwise, 3-storey segmental bays with 2 flat-arched windows
to each floor and 6/6 sashes of original design; there is a
broad panel of smooth stucco between the central and western
bays at first-floor level; cornice and blocking course. The
elevation in Borough Street has flat-arched windows to all
floors towards the south of this elevation, the ground-floor
window having gilded and engraved glass of c1900; stucco frame
at first-floor level, now blank. Cornice piers flank the area
with low walls between and cast-iron railings with spearhead
finials to the outer bays.
INTERIOR: the interior has a bar-front of late C19 or early
C20 date and a Lincrusta ceiling only in the western part; the
bar to Borough Street has panelling of inter-war date and a
fireplace of mildly Modernist design.

Listing NGR: TQ3015804607

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660572

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Recommended Books

• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  For the Record
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Bristol (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)