Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER ROAD
577-1/31/543 (East side)
20/08/71 No.90
and attached walls and gate piers

GV II

Single house, but linked to No.91 (qv). c1840. Stucco, roof of
slate.
EXTERIOR: 2 storeys over basement with dormers, 4-window
range, the main part of the house double-fronted with a
shallow, 2-storey segmental bay either side of entrance.
Basement and ground floor decorated with chamfered
rustication; quoins to main front, vermiculated at
ground-floor level. Steps up to segmental-arched entrance
framed by an elaborate, elliptical-arched iron porch with slim
columns, foliage capitals, arabesques to spandrels, stained
glass in the tympanum and sides, and scrolling cresting;
separate wrought-iron gates within porch; panelled door framed
by wooden doorcase consisting of pilasters and entablature,
with scrolling ironwork in the tympanum above, and leaf and
bud motifs modelled in plaster to the wall above that. The
porch and all the entrance details, apart possibly from the
segmental arch, appear to date from the late C19. All windows
to main front flat-arched and tripartite with fluted pilasters
to mullions; storey band between ground and first floor,
lintel band to first-floor; coved eaves; bay of one-window
range to south with side passage entrance and 2 windows over
with moulded stucco architraves, the lower blank; return to
Montpelier Terrace of 2-window range, the windows with moulded
stucco architraves; 2-storey addition to the east; dormers to
hipped roof; side stacks, those to the north having tall
castellated and ornamented pots.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
5 square, stuccoed, corniced and panelled piers to front
garden, those flanking the entrance with egg-and-dart
mouldings; low corniced wall between.

Listing NGR: TQ3026104573

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661693

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas