NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS

NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 7-31, MONTPELIER CRESCENT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1380362
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 7-31, MONTPELIER CRESCENT

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1380362
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Aug-1999
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 7-31, MONTPELIER CRESCENT

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 7-31 AND ATTACHED GATE PIERS AND WALLS AND RAILINGS, 7-31, MONTPELIER CRESCENT

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 30460 04909

Details

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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

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Legacy System number:: 480450
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.