Numbers 53-56 and Attached Railings
NUMBERS 53-56 AND ATTACHED RAILINGS, 53-56, MONTPELIER ROAD
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Overview
- 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
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 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 481945
- 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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