Numbers 7–31 Montpelier Crescent and attached gate piers, walls and railings
Designated
13 October 1952
Reference no.
1380362
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name
Numbers 1, 2 and 3 Montpelier Crescent and attached railings; Numbers 4, 5 and 6 Montpelier Crescent and attached railings; 32 and 33 Montpelier Crescent; 34–38 Montpelier Crescent
Designated
20 August 1971
Reference no.
1380360; 1380361; 1380363; 1380364
Location of Montpelier Crescent within central Brighton
Montpelier Crescent is a mid 19th-century crescent of 38 houses in the Montpelier suburb of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in five parts as a set-piece residential development in the rapidly growing seaside resort, the main part of the crescent was designed between 1843 and 1847 by prominent local architect Amon Henry Wilds and is one of his most distinctive compositions. Extra houses were added at both ends of the crescent in the mid-1850s. Unlike most other squares, terraces and crescents in Brighton, it does not face the sea—and the view it originally had towards the South Downs was blocked within a few years by a tall terrace of houses opposite. Montpelier was an exclusive and "salubrious"[1] area of Brighton, and Montpelier Crescent has been called its "great showpiece".[2] Wilds's central section has been protected as Grade II* listed, with the later additions listed separately at the lower Grade II. The crescent is in one of the city's 34 conservation areas, and forms one of several "outstanding examples of late Regency architecture" within it.[3]
^Collis 2010, p. 75.
^Antram & Morrice 2008, p. 168.
^"Montpelier & Clifton Hill Conservation Area Character Statement" (PDF). Brighton & Hove City Council (Design & Conservation Department). 20 October 2005. p. 1. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 September 2011. Retrieved 26 December 2011.
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