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NORWICH UNION HOUSE

NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 166-169, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380623
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE
Statutory Address:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 166-169, NORTH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380623
Date first listed:: 04-Nov-1994
List Entry Name:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 166-169, NORTH STREET

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: NORWICH UNION HOUSE, 166-169, NORTH STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: The City of Brighton and Hove (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 31173 04185

Details

BRIGHTON

TQ3104SW NORTH STREET 577-1/40/605 (North side) 04/11/94 Nos.166-169 (Consecutive) Norwich Union House

GV II

Office headquarters. Built 1935-36. By HS Goodhart-Rendel. Ground floor on North Street and return altered in mid to late C20. Structure fills west half of block, returning down Princes Place and having an elevation to the Pavilion Grounds to the north. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys over basement. 5-window range with broad corner range and a return of 11-window range; rear elevation of 6-window range. Steel frame sheathed in hand-made, sand-faced bricks arranged in soldier courses vertically and horizontally; at the intersection of joists and studs the sheathing laid in a star pattern; broad joints between sheathing bricks filled with blue mosaic tiles. Window infill spandrels filled with brick in header bond. Top storey is brick in Flemish bond with blue brick diapering. On rear blue-green stone sheathing to ground floor. Some lead flashing around top of tower, otherwise the roof is parapeted. All windows steel casements of original design. The main and return elevations are arranged to express the structure's orthogonal grid, each bay is near forming a cell of identical dimensions and design. The corner range is composed of 4 windows, narrower than the rest, which slope obliquely turning the corner; the corner casement windows are zig-zag in section; the whole arrangement suggests the pleated fold of a curtain. All the windows are flat arched with sloping sills. The frank expression of the frame is left aside for the top storey, which jetties out over those below by one brick's thickness and has a sheer surface broken only by the shallow projecting bays of broad top-floor windows which alternate with narrower windows flush with the front wall. Parapet to roof treated as bracketed eaves, which are interrupted at the corner by a short cylindrical tower, its zig-zag walls echoing the treatment of the corner windows below. The rear elevation is notable for retaining the original sheathing of the ground floor, a green stone revetment which angles back to header bond brick walls. The arrangement of the orthogonal grid is varied here, having very narrow corner and end bays; the first-floor window nearest the corner with a zig-zag plan, then, to the left, 3 tripartite windows set in a green stone surround. INTERIOR: not inspected. The Brighton and Sussex Permanent Benefit Building Society was founded in 1865; in 1945 the name changed to the Alliance and in 1985, the Alliance and Leicester. (Carder T: The Encyclopaedia of Brighton: Lewes: 1990-: 112; Brighton Polytechnic: The Buildings of Brighton: Macclesfield: 1986-: 56).

Listing NGR: TQ3117304185

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 480946
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Carder, T, Encyclopaedia of Brighton, (1990), 112
School of Architecture, , Interior Design, Brighton Polytechnic, A Guide to the Buildings of Brighton, (1987), 56

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.