The Montpelier Inn and Attached Railings

THE MONTPELIER INN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MONTPELIER PLACE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380369
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
The Montpelier Inn and Attached Railings
Statutory Address:
THE MONTPELIER INN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MONTPELIER PLACE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1380369
Date first listed:
20-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:
The Montpelier Inn and Attached Railings
Statutory Address 1:
THE MONTPELIER INN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MONTPELIER PLACE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
THE MONTPELIER INN AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, MONTPELIER PLACE

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 30158 04607

Details

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

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Legacy System number:
480457
Legacy System:
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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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