Numbers 11 And 12 And Attached Railings And Piers

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS 577-1/31/559 (West side) 13/10/52 Nos.11 AND 12 and attached railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: MONTPELIER VILLAS Nos.11-20 (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; on the return in Victoria Road, No.11 has 6-window range, No.12 3-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. Flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles supporting first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade, the scalloped work missing to No.12; overlight; segmental bay to basement and ground floor on the street front, 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 of No.11 in Victoria Road has a segmental bay to the ground and first floors with tripartite windows, and sashes of original design to first floor; otherwise, flat-arched windows with 6/6 sashes of original design. The easternmost window is blank; 2-window extension to west. No.12 has a canted bay to the ground floor and otherwise flat-arched windows with 6/6 sashes of original design, the westernmost blank. Eaves on console brackets with paterae in the frieze; hipped roof with stacks to front and back parts. INTERIOR: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to entrance steps and front gardens, those to front gardens with brackets; square, stuccoed, corniced pier between Nos 12 and 13 only. 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: TQ3035104712