Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3004SW MONTPELIER ROAD
577-1/38/854 (West side)
13/10/52 Sillwood Hall Nos.1-16 (consec)
(Formerly Listed as:
SILLWOOD PLACE
Former Sillwood Hall Hotel (now
occupied by Plummers))
(Formerly Listed as:
WESTERN TERRACE
Nos 4-8 (consec) Plummers)

II

Formerly known as: Nos.4-8 Plummers (Nos 4,5 and 6) and
Sillwood Hall Hotel (Nos 7 and 8) WESTERN TERRACE.
Includes: Nos.4-7A WESTERN TERRACE.
House, later hotel, now flats. By Amon Henry Wilds. 1827-28;
extensively rebuilt in the early 1990s. Stucco, roof of
asbestos tiles.
EXTERIOR: 3 and 4 storeys with dormers to attic, 4-window
range to Sillwood Place. All windows flat-arched except where
specified. Banded rustication to ground floor. The front in
Sillwood place has 4 windows to the centre flanked by
round-arched French windows with springing band; 4 canted bays
to first and second floors with continuous balconies; parapet;
flat-arched dormers to attic.
The west front, in Montpelier Road, has an open segmental
portico with Doric columns to the canted recess at the centre,
ground and mezzanine floors below a moulded storey band, and
moulded architraves to first- and second-floor windows;
cornice and deep parapet; hipped and flat-roofed pavilions to
attic.
Nos 4-7A Western Terrace. 1827-8, extensively refurbished in
the early 1990s. By Amon Henry Wilds. Stucco, roofs of
asbestos tiles. 2 storeys and attic, 3-window range apart from
Nos 4 & 7A which are of 2-window range. The terrace is set out
as a slightly projecting centre-piece of 3-window range
fronting No.6, and consisting of giant tetrastyle pilasters
with Ammonite capitals supporting an entablature and pediment,
with an attic above, the windows flanked by pilasters with
semicircular caps, the centre window blank; and
slightly-projecting wings of one-window range, fronting part
of Nos 4 & 7A and consisting of paired giant fluted pilasters
with Ammonite capitals supporting an entablature, the
pilasters continued in the form of acroteria decorated with
shell-moulds; flat-arched entrance to No.4 and No.7A in a bay
outside the notional wings. In between are Nos 5 & 7, of
3-window range; No.5 having a recessed ground floor and a
shallow balcony to the first floor carried on antae with Greek
key decoration; No.7 has a flat-arched entrance set back
between pilasters, and a segmental bay to the ground floor.
Segmental-arched dormers to mansard roof.
INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ3021604377

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26661696

External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.

Recommended Books

• 
  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
• 
  Old House Care and Repair
• 
  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
• 
  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House