NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS

NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53-56, MONTPELIER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381583
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address:: NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53-56, MONTPELIER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381583
Date first listed:: 13-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS
Statutory Address 1:: NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53-56, MONTPELIER ROAD

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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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 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53-56, MONTPELIER ROAD

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 30226 04570

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER ROAD 577-1/31/1149 (West side) 13/10/52 Nos.53-56 (Consecutive) and attached railings

II

Terraced house. c1830. By Amon Henry Wilds. Stucco, roofs obscured by parapet. EXTERIOR: 3 storeys and attic over basement, 2-window range. The houses are set out as 2 matching pairs, to accommodate the slope of the road. All windows flat-arched. Steps up to flat-arched entrance flanked by Doric pilasters carrying an entablature with triglyph frieze and mutules; overlight. Rusticated ground floor. Ground-floor windows with blind balustrading to spandrels. First and second floors to each house framed by fluted pilasters with "Ammonite" capitals carrying an entablature with bracketed cornice. First-floor windows have individual balconettes, the cast-iron balustrades with anthemion ornament, and round-arched architraves with a frieze of wreaths and shell-mould in the tympanum; second-floor windows have bracketed sills, moulded architraves and strapwork ornament to the spandrels. Attic storey with simplified pilasters carried up into semicircular caps decorated with anthemion ornament, the caps lacking on Nos 55 & 56; cornice; parapet. Stacks to party walls. INTERIOR: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to steps with gadrooned standards and halberd finials.

Listing NGR: TQ3022604570

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Legacy System number:: 481945
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.