Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings and Gate Piers
NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, 1 AND 2, MONTPELIER VILLAS
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380089
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, 1 AND 2, MONTPELIER VILLAS
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1380089
- Date first listed:
- 13-Oct-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 26-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 and 2 and Attached Railings and Gate Piers
- Statutory Address 1:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, 1 AND 2, MONTPELIER VILLAS
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 AND 2 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS AND GATE PIERS, 1 AND 2, MONTPELIER VILLAS
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 30354 04614
Details
BRIGHTON
TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS
577-1/31/554 (East side)
13/10/52 Nos.1 AND 2
and attached railings and piers
(Formerly Listed as:
MONTPELIER VILLAS
Nos.1-10 (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, 4-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
under separate roofs.
The front part: ground floor decorated with banded
rustication; first floor with long and short quoins. Steps up
to flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles supporting
first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade; overlight;
segmental bay to street front to basement and ground floor
with flat-arched triple windows and terminating in a shallow
dome above the storey band; 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 sashes of original design to first floor; on each
house the easternmost first-floor window is blank; first-floor
window over entrance to No.2 has original margin lights. Eaves
to the whole building on console brackets with paterae in the
frieze, except on extension to No.1 set back behind rear
segmental bay; hipped roof with central and other stacks.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
Cast-iron railings to entrance steps and front gardens, those
to front gardens with brackets; square, stuccoed, corniced
piers 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: TQ3035104614
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 479568
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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