Numbers 3 And 4 And Attached Railings And Piers

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER VILLAS 577-1/31/555 (East side) 13/10/52 Nos.3 AND 4 and attached railings and piers (Formerly Listed as: MONTPELIER VILLAS Nos.1-10 (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, 4-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; first floor with long and short quoins. Steps up to flat-arched entrance with pilasters and consoles supporting first-floor balcony with scalloped balustrade; overlight; segmental bay to street front to basement and ground floor with flat-arched triple windows and terminating in a shallow dome above the storey band; basement windows have 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 and margin lights to first-floor sashes; on each house the easternmost first-floor window is blank. Eaves on console brackets with paterae in the frieze; hipped roof with central and other stacks; additional storey added to rear of No.4. INTERIOR: not inspected. Cast-iron railings to entrance steps and front gardens, those to front gardens with brackets; square, stuccoed, corniced piers 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: TQ3036104637