Numbers 1-7 And Attached Walls And Railings

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This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

BRIGHTON

TQ3004NW MONTPELIER TERRACE 577-1/31/548 (South side) 20/08/71 Nos.1-7 (Consecutive) and attached railings and walls

GV II

Includes: No.89 MONTPELIER ROAD. Terraced houses. No.89 Montpelier Road and Nos 1-5 Montpelier Terrace of c1830, Nos 6-7 c1850. Stucco, roofs of slate where visible. EXTERIOR: 4 storeys over half-basement, plus dormers, 3-window range. Basement and ground floor rusticated; steps up to flat-arched entrance with overlight. All windows flat-arched.

The first and second floors have giant Ionic pilasters between the houses, the details lost to the capital of No.89 Montpelier Road; continuous bracketed balcony to first floor with cast-iron railings, missing to No.89 Montpelier Road; cornice, and blocking course interrupted by dormers, except that Nos 6-7 have bracketed eaves with disc patterns in the frieze, as, for example, on the houses in Montpelier Villas (qv); cast-iron railings to the steps of Nos 1-3 and 5-6; low garden walls to all houses, mostly much altered but cobbles in brick panels to No.5 and in part to No.89 Montpelier Road. The principal front of the latter is in Montpelier Road: 5-window range, the 2 southernmost sets of windows blank. No 7 Montpelier Terrace has its principal front in Montpelier Villas: 4-window range with flat-arched entrance and porch carried on slim iron columns; 3-storey canted bay to right of entrance; southernmost windows blank; lower wing to north set back. INTERIOR: not inspected.





Listing NGR: TQ3029004596

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This is part of the Series: IOE01/0563 IOE Records taken by Chris Dawson; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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