Description

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW NORTH STREET
577-1/40/602 (North side)
No.153

GV II

Bank. Early C20. Stone. Mansarded roof of slate.
EXTERIOR/PLAN: rectangular, corner plan with a 5-window range
and a 4-window return; single-window range on the chamfered
and rebated corner. 2 storeys over basement. Italianate style.
Entrance to banking hall in the corner range; flat-arched with
entablature supported by a pair of volute brackets; swags and
escutcheons in rectangular panel above. Swags also to be found
flanking the corner range and at the party walls. There is a
second flat-arched entrance to the rear of the return.
Round-arched ground-floor windows, each with a console bracket
keystone; the wall surface between treated as banded
rustication. Running across the ground floor is an attached
colonnade of the Tuscan order, one bay for each window, the
columns double to either side of the corner entrance and at
the party walls. Storey band in the form of a broad
entablature with plinth above is partly obscured by late C20
sign fascia. Each first-floor window is flat arched with
architrave and pediment, except for that on the corner which
has a double architrave only. In addition the corner range is
covered with shallow banded rustication. Quoin strips to party
walls. Entablature with projecting mutule cornice topped by
balustraded parapet is continuous. Stacks to party walls.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
This bank forms a group with other early C20 commercial
structures on North Street, namely Nos 155 (qv), 163 (qv) and
Nos 166-169 The Norwich Union Insurance House (qv).

Listing NGR: TQ3105604274

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26660808

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Recommended Books

• 
  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)