Numbers 19 And 20 And Attached Railings And Piers

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS 577-1/31/563 (West side) 13/10/52 Nos.19 AND 20 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, 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 are under separate roofs. The front part: ground floor decorated with banded rustication; first floor with long and short quoins. Flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles supporting first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade; 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; basement windows with 6/6 sashes of original design; 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 has a full-height segmental bay with tripartite windows, 6/6 sashes of original design to basement and margin lights to first floor. 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 each pair of houses in Montpelier Villas. 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: TQ3032004626